xml-dev - detecting character set of an XML doc

[Dirk Germonpre <dirkg@tectrade.be>]

Hello,

If I'm writing an XML tool, how can I detect what character set is used for
an XML document? I've read that for UTF-16, an encoding signature (xFEFF)
is used at the beginning of the document. Is there a different encoding
signature for each character set? If so, where can I find documentation on
this?
Where can I find encoders and decoders for C++ to convert to and from unicode?

Thanks in advance.

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Dirk Germonpré - dirkg@tectrade.be

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