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RE: How to specify a Processing Instruction? (better: how to cont rolencoding on saving)
- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- To: "Arnold, Curt" <Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 20:19:33 +0200
> From: Arnold, Curt [mailto:Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 8:06 PM
> To: 'xml-dev@lists.xml.org'
> Subject: RE: How to specify a Processing Instruction? (better: how to
> cont rol encoding on saving)
>
> ...
>
> XML processors are required by the spec to support UTF-8 and
> UTF-16, support for all other encodings (including ISO-8859-1) is
> optional. If your "server" only recognizes ISO-8859-1, then it is non
> conformant with the XML 1.0 specification. Forcing the encoding
> to be ISO-8859-1 will cause the serialization to fail if there
> are any characters with Unicode code points > 255 since those cannot be
> represented by ISO-8859-1.
Only if they appear as part of names. Otherwise they can be serialized as
entities.