RE: special characters issue in xml

> Also note that the CCSID is not necessarily the same as the code page,
> which is what encodings are called in the PC world.  I'm still a little
> unclear on this one; CCSID 819 and 850 seems to be the same as code
> pages 819 and 850, but after that it gets a little confusing.

Well, the codepage is a component of the CCSID.  The CCSID also identifies
other things, like the character set and encoding scheme...

There are some languages, mostly Asian languages, where a CCSID can
actually correspond to more than one codepage.  But, in the western world,
it's pretty much a 1-to-1 relationship, where the codepage number and the
CCSID number match.

Take a look at this table, you'll see that for the most part the code page
and CCSID are the same number in the western world...
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/QB3AWC01/G.2

I find it convienient that codepages and ccsids use the same numbers where
I live... I only have to remember 819, 37, 1252...  I don't have to
remember which codepage goes with which ccsid since they're the same...
However, it would probably dispel a lot of confusion if they were
completely different numbers.

Of course, so would some good documentation... :)