Re: weird character  , how to make it disappear?

Paul Tomsic wrote:

> I'm trying to get a raquo character to appear, but I'm
> getting a  Â before it.
> How do I get rid of this   ??
>
> I've got the following for my xsl file at the top:
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='US-ASCII'?>
> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
>         <!ENTITY raquo       "&#x000BB;">
>         <!ENTITY sep         " ">
> ]>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>         <xsl:output method="html" encoding="US-ASCII"/>
>
> then when I want the raquo to appear, my usage is:
>
> &sep;&raquo;&sep;
>
> but thru the browser, I'm getting as output:
>
> »
>
> how do I make that  disappear?
> I've also tried to change the encoding to iso-8859-1,
> and the entity reference to &x187; but with no
> success.  any help greatly appreciated.
This is almost certainly a problem with the encoding of the 
transformation result. In case you're doing a server-side transform with 
custom code, please show your code. Also, try to run the transformation 
through a command-line utility (such as InstantSaxon or msxsl.exe) and 
check the results.
Julian


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