xml-dev - Re: Identifying the encoding of a document

[lisa@exinet.co.za (Lisa Retief)]

> Do you mean you need to detect in some documents which encoding they
> use?

Yes - I need to do this programatically - sometimes the user has not
specified an encoding and I would prefer not to default to something if I
can figure it out.

>
> Or which encoding is best to use when generating XML documents for
> different locales?
>

I am interested in this question too, as I need to advise clients and users
of the application I am developing about this.

Thanks, Lisa