xml-dev - Re: PR.xml

[Peter Murray-Rust <peter@ursus.demon.co.uk>]

At 10:43 16/01/98 -0500, David Megginson wrote:
>Peter Murray-Rust writes:
>
>The XML source for the PR is encoded in ISO-8859-1 but has no encoding
>declaration (so AElfred assumes UTF-8, and reports an encoding error,
>though not very helpfully, when it finds an invalid UTF-8 sequence).
>The WG is aware of the problem.

Thanks. I am also aware of it now :-).  Can I make the assumption that:

	- ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 look identical to not-very-experienced humans.
	- in principle I should be able to sort this by adding something like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
	to the top of the document

	- in practice this fails because by the time it gets to the encoding
declaration it has already assumed the encoding is UTF-8 and has crashed :-)

I am not quite clear why we need this problem. Do different tools emit
different encodings? If so, what should I work with?. Can I convert this
document? 

	I know there has been lots of important discussions about encodings (which
I have not always read very carefully), so an authoritative statement from
a WG member would help at least one human :-)

	P.




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