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Asked: 2026-05-12T16:55:10+00:00

I have an XML document that I’m transforming using XSL and then spitting out

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I have an XML document that I’m transforming using XSL and then spitting out directly into an HTML document (all server side).

Everything works OK functionally but special characters (specifically the © symbol — these are ads and many have © symbols) don’t show up right (IE shows ? and FF shows a diamond with a ? inside). Obviously something funky is going on encoding-wise.

The XML is in ISO-8859-1 encoding.

I tried adding <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" method="html" encoding="iso-8859-1"/> to my XSL file and <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> to my HEAD tag in the HTML.

I was thinking of running the XML through a template (XSL) that converted all special characters to HTML equivs (© to &copy;) but I was hoping I don’t have to go that route.

Any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think your problem isn’t XSLT related. You probably are missing your page return encoding (you know, like Response.ContentEncoding)

    You can’t easily convert © to &copy;

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