Re: [docbook] invalid characters for ISO-8859-1 response

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony Ettinger" <anthony@chovy.com>
To: "Dave Pawson" <davep@dpawson.co.uk>
Cc: <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook] invalid characters for ISO-8859-1 response

>
> I'm still confused though...why make a doc require UTF-8, when if I
> just typed it out there would be no dependency.

UTF-8 output is not required, as the customization examples demonstrated. 
You can additionally customize the gentext strings to replace the 
non-breaking spaces.

If you are wondering why UTF-8 is the default output encoding, that's 
because the DocBook XSL stylesheets support 59 languages, and the easiest 
way to do that is using Unicode, for which UTF-8 is the most commonly 
supported encoding.  Does that help?

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net