encoding question

[Guest]

I have a page where I get the data from DB as a DataSet. Use the
DataSet.GetXml() and load the XML in to a XMLDocument. Then use a XSL
stylesheet to render the page. In this process I am not able to display the
special characters such as Pound Symbol as is ... instead it comesout as "£".
I am not sure where I need to fix this. If I bind the same DataSet to a
grid, it displays the Pound symbol correctly. Any suggestions are greatly
appreciated.

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I have a page where I get the data from DB as a DataSet. Use the
DataSet.GetXml() and load the XML in to a XMLDocument. Then use a XSL
stylesheet to render the page. In this process I am not able to display the
special characters such as Pound Symbol as is ... instead it comesout as "?".
I am not sure where I need to fix this. If I bind the same DataSet to a
grid, it displays the Pound symbol correctly. Any suggestions are greatly
appreciated.

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/debuggingunicode.html for my way
of identifying where this kind of problem lies.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

You may find the following reference useful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
A watched clock never boils.