Unicode

Today I got in a rush to implement a XML+XSL -> HTML translation at server side. I looked at MSDN and found that there is a simple implementation which can fit my requirements, the code is the following (for some reasons I have to use ASP and not .net technologies):

Rumor said that the GB18030 standardization working committee has been disbanded some weeks ago, and GB (Q) 18030-2000 standard is pending to be abandoned soon. In addition, the new identity card system developed by the Ministry of Public Security has been stuck because of Chinese coding problem.