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- From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@allette.com.au>
- To: <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 02:45:11 +1000
From: Dirk Germonpre <dirkg@tectrade.be>
> 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?
Character sets are determined by a sequence. First, the character family
(signature) is detected:
* UTf-16 little-endian (from the BOM)
* UTF-16 big-endian (from the BOM)
* EBCDIC family
* ASCII family
Then the encoding declaration is read, enough to read in the encoding
attribute.
> Where can I find encoders and decoders for C++ to convert to and from
unicode?
Try GNU libc's iconv() routine if you need a transcoding routines. That
is available free.
Rick Jelliffe
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