Thanks for the input, Bjoern!  :-)

Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * 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.