Re: [xml-dev] [Summary] Why is Encoding Metadata (e.g. encoding="UTF-8")

[richard@inf.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)]

In article <007c01c7fbae$bcb6b400$59fea8c0@turtle> you write:

>> Are there any encodings that have the same encoding of <?xml 
>> but completely different encodings for other characters?

>Yes. For example iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-2.

What there aren't (as far as I know) are any encoding that are the
same for <?xml but different for other characters that might appear in
an XML declaration (which is why XML 1.1 doesn't allow the non-ascii
whitespace characters #x85 and #x2028 in the XML declaration, even
though they are normally converted to linefeed).  Encoding names can
only contain ASCII letters, digits and a few other characters.

-- Richard



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