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#596 Default xhtml output should be ISO-8859-1

output: HTML
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XSL (1066)
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2005-04-24
2005-01-16
Jens Elkner
No

Unfortunately docbook/xsl/1.67.2/xhtml/docbook.xsl uses
UTF-8 as default output format. Since often not required
and causes problems e.g. when using mozilla (just put
the generated
document on a apache server and have a look at it) the
default output should be changed to "ISO-8859-1".

This would be also consistent with the
docbook/xsl/1.67.2/html/docbook.xsl stylesheet and avoids,
that one has always to setup a customized stylesheet just
to fix this issue ...

Discussion

  • Jirka Kosek

    Jirka Kosek - 2005-01-17

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    Having ISO-8859-1 as a default encoding for XHTML would be
    step backwards IMHO.

    Isn't problem caused by fact that there is no <meta http-
    equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset="xxx"/>
    tag inserted in XHTML output (this caused by XML output
    method used in XSLT) for legacy browser. Will be adding this
    to stylesheets sufficient for you?

     
  • Jirka Kosek

    Jirka Kosek - 2005-04-24
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    • status: open --> closed
     
  • Jirka Kosek

    Jirka Kosek - 2005-04-24

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    No response to additional question. Bug closed.