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On 03/11/12 17:38, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> lipska the kat wrote:
>
>> On 30/10/12 14:41, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>>> 2012-10-30 16:34, lipska the kat wrote:
>>>> I've tried all the solutions Google supplies but I just cannot get the
>>>> transformed html to display the £ (GBP) sign at all.
>>>
>>> That’s not a style sheet issue, is it?

>>    * Questions on XSL related subjects.
>
> I can see and foresee no problems discussing XSLT and, in general, Web style
> sheet languages other than CSS here.  Certainly when the result of the
> transformation pertains to display in Web browsers, as it does in this case,
> discussions about that are more appropriate here than in comp.text.xml.

phew, that's a relief.

It was an encoding issue, not sure if it was a container issue(Tomcat) 
or a Java thing, I haven't tracked it down yet but I'm trying to be 
UTF-8 system wide.

In my custom tag
pageContext.getResponse().setContentType("text/html; charset=UTF-8");
fixes things for the time being.

Good to know I can come back here in future.

lipska

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