encoding question

Re: encoding question

exBK <exBK@discussio ns.microsoft.co m> wrote:[color=blue]
> 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.[/color]

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

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Re: encoding question

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"exBK" <exBK@discussio ns.microsoft.co m> wrote in message
news:AA019ABA-BAA3-4759-A9F0-99EA3B6DCACB@mi crosoft.com...[color=blue]
>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.
>[/color]