Re: [docbook] invalid characters for ISO-8859-1 response

Bob Stayton wrote:

> 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?

59! Is that all :-)

Think what a nightmare it would be for the users
and the stylesheet maintainers were it not for utf-8
and Unicode.

regards



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Dave Pawson
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