Thanx
I did it this way

	<xsl:variable name=3D"oms" select=3D"translate(Pairs/Pair/AssignmentText,
'&#192;&#193;&#194;&#195;&#196;&#197;&#200;&#201;&#202;&#203;&#204;&#205;&#=
206;&#207;&#210;&#211;&#212;&#213;&#214;&#216;&#220;&#219;&#217;&#218;&#209=
;&#199;&#224;&#225;&#226;&#227;&#228;&#229;&#233;&#232;&#235;&#234;&#237;&#=
237;&#238;&#239;&#241;&#243;&#242;&#244;&#246;&#245;&#250;&#249;&#251;&#252=
;&#248;'
,
	'&#203;&#231;&#229;&#204;&#128;&#129;&#233;&#131;&#230;&#232;&#237;&#234;&=
#235;&#236;&#241;&#238;&#239;&#205;&#133;&#175;&#134;&#243;&#244;&#242;&#13=
2;&#130;&#136;&#135;&#137;&#139;&#138;&#140;&#142;&#143;&#145;&#144;&#146;&=
#147;&#148;&#149;&#150;&#151;&#152;&#153;&#154;&#155;&#156;&#157;&#158;&#15=
9;&#191;')"/>


the first list are ANSI-codes, the second list are MacRoman codes


Julian F. Reschke wrote:
> XSLNews wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am making a textfile with xsl but the textfile is for a Apple
> > macintosh so this machine doesn't recognize the character for example
> > =EB, it must be &#206;
>
> No, it doesn't have to. As long as the text file is legal XML, any
> recipient should understand it.
>
> > Does anybody know a easy way to change all my special characters into
> > this codes ???
>
> You can try to specify an output encoding of "US-ASCII", but not all
> XSLT engines will support that (only UTF-8 and UTF-16 are mandatory).
>=20
> Best regards, Julian