----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Ettinger" <>
To: "Dave Pawson" <>
Cc: <>
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
