Re: Entity Reference Question

[Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>]

Mike Brown wrote:
> Lee Goddard wrote:
> > XML is by default UTF-8, must support UTF-16,
> 
> Clarification:
> 
> UTF-8 will be assumed in the absence of both an encoding declaration and a
> byte order mark at the beginning of the document. It is possible to omit
> the encoding declaration but still have it be UTF-16.

Er, actually, also, you can specify the encoding in the transport, e.g. in
an HTTP or MIME Content-Type header. So there are various ways to say a
document is UTF-16 without actually putting it in the prolog.

   - Mike
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