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- From: "Matthew Sergeant (EML)" <Matthew.Sergeant@eml.ericsson.se>
- To: "'Dirk Germonpre'" <dirkg@tectrade.be>, xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:44:34 +0200
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dirk Germonpre [SMTP: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?
>
Not each "character set" - but each encoding, yes. They all exhibit
different binary signatures, otherwise they would be the same... :)
> If so, where can I find documentation on this?
You can start with the XML spec, appendix B (I think it's B)
contains some brief information. Or John Cowan posted a C decoder which
detected the most common ones, or you can find my perl Apache module on
CPAN, which detects the character sets and encoding.
Matt.
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