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- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- To: xml-dev@xml.org
- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 09:35:21 -0700
At 12:39 AM 4/21/00 -0400, Clark C. Evans wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Rocky Raccoon wrote:
>> <?xml version = "1.0">
>> what does this equate to in terms of encoding ?
>
>It will try to auto-detect based on the first
>few bytes. See the XML spec for details; it
>is towards the very bottom.
Er, no. If there's no encoding= it must be in UTF-8 or UTF-16. If it's
UTF-16, it has to have a BOM (Byte Order Mark), and this will enable
autodection between -8 and -16. Of course, if it's in pure ASCII (*not*
8859-1 or some MS codepage) that's also UTF-8. -Tim
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