---
name: "ElementTreeData.UnicodeFormat"
section: "3kaya"
platform: "linux"
package: "kaya"
version: "0.4.4-6.2"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ElementTreeData.UnicodeFormat"
---

# ElementTreeData.UnicodeFormat(3kaya)

Controls the output format of non-ASCII characters

## NAME

ElementTreeData::UnicodeFormat - Controls the output format of non-ASCII characters

## SYNOPSIS

**ElementTreeData::UnicodeFormat\<** **\>**

-

  \=  **LiteralUTF8(****)**

-

  \|  **NumericReference(****)**

## DESCRIPTION

Characters in Unicode that are not in ASCII can either be output as literal characters ( **LiteralUTF8**  ) or as a numeric entity reference ( **NumericReference**  ). Entity references give a larger file but will continue if the output will be used in an environment where the character encoding is not UTF-8 (for example, if the output is inserted into a HTML document in a different encoding)

## AUTHORS

Kaya standard library by Edwin Brady, Chris Morris and others (kaya@kayalang.org). For further information see http://kayalang.org/

## LICENSE

The Kaya standard library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (version 2.1 or any later version) as published by the Free Software Foundation.