"Simon Caldwell" <simonjcaldwell@g...> wrote in message
news:1157706909.106250.147740@e......
> When we need a non-breaking space from an xsl, we've been happily using
> &#160; as usually recommended.
> However, we now have a need to support different charsets, for instance
> Big5, and this does not render &#160; as expected.
>
> For instance, the code snippet given below will output a non-breaking
> space for charset iso-8859-1.  But for charset Big5 we get "?/TD>"
> instead.
>
> So the question is - how can we code this so that it will work
> regardless of charset?
>
> TIA
>
> Simon
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" >
> <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="1" CELLPADDING="3"
> ALIGN="center" BGCOLOR="#999999">
> <TR>
> <TD>&#160;</TD>
> </TR>
> </TABLE>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>

The above xsl outputs UTF-8.  If you change the xsl:ouput encoding to BIG5
the non-breaking space comes out as a ? because there is no equivalent in
BIG5.  Try &#127; instead for BIG5.  It's a kludge but it should work.