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RE: default encoding with no xsl:output element specified?
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:04:29 -0000
- Subject: RE: [xsl] default encoding with no xsl:output element specified?
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> I keep having a nagging question about this, because I keep reading
> people saying UTF-8 is the default. Isn't it implementation defined:
> UTF-8 or UTF-16 that is the default?
Yes. The processor is allowed to choose either. In practice many
implementations also allow the encoding to be specified by external means,
e.g. by supplying a character stream as the output destination.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
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