* Roshawn Dawson wrote in microsoft.public.xsl:
>I'm creatin an affiliate site for Amazon.com, and I am having an 
>encoding issue in xsl.  Given a name that contains the é symbol 
>(latin small letter e with acute), how do I properly encode it?
>
>For instance, Amazon.com encodes the symbol as %E9 while in xsl it is 
>encoded as %C3%A9.  How can I have it done Amazon's way,

Please make sure %E9 is what you really need; this encoding is based on
ISO-8859-1 which can't encode many characters (like the euro symbol or
japanese "characters"), %C3%A9 would be the proper way here, this is
based on UTF-8 which does not have the problems cited above. That said,
all you need is encode the string to a byte array using the ISO-8859-1
encoding first, and then replace octets > 0x7F by their %xx equivalent.
If you use the .NET Framework, the System.Web.Uri class has methods for
this purpose. For XSLT you'd need to have this code in an extension
function (or a complicated template), I don't think there is any other
means available since the XSLT standard requires the results you get.
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