Re: [docbook-apps] odd entities appearing in html output

[Paul Heinlein <heinlein@madboa.com>]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, René Haché wrote:

> When I output my DocBook XML to HTML, I have a bunch of weird 
> character entities cropping up in my HTML output. The capital letter 
> "A" with circumflex appears in the document after the following: 
> [....]
> 	<xsl:output
> 		method="html"
> 		encoding="UTF-8"
> 		indent="yes"
> 		saxon:character-representation="native;decimal"/>

It's the encoding that's probably tripping you up. My hunch is that 
you're viewing the file via some framework that thinks the file is 
ISO-8859-X encoded.

If, for instance, you're viewing the file in a web browser, you might 
try forcing the character coding scheme to UTF-8 to see if that makes 
a difference.

If that's the case, then you'll need to figure how to tell your web 
server to set the correct Content-Type header, e.g.,

   Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

In Apache, you can do so with the AddDefaultCharset directive or, in 
many configurations, by giving your files a .utf8 suffix. I can't 
speak for other web servers.

-- Paul Heinlein <heinlein@madboa.com>