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Re: Encoding in XML

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• Subject: Re: Encoding in XML
• From: Toni Uusitalo <toni.uusitalo@p...>
• Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:51:08 +0200
• In-reply-to: <20031219022406.10977.qmail@w...>
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At 04:24 19.12.2003, you wrote:
>I was working with an XML file that contains some
>German characters. If I just create a default XML file
>it is giving error in IE. If I setup encoding=UTF-8,
>it is working fine
>
>I did a google and came to know that different
>encoding exists like UTF-8, UTF-16 etc. Can somebody
>point out all the encodings that are valid and how
>they work?
>
>What encoding is universal and can show any
>characters?

UTF-8 and UTF-16 both are "universal" and can show any characters (cover 
most known languages).

If you save your document in these formats you don't have to use encoding
declaration - it doesn't hurt to specify it though. At loading/parsing 
stage xml parsers default to UTF-8.

If you want to use for example latin1 character set you must specify 
encoding="ISO-8859-1".
Working with latin1 you can use any legacy text editor etc. to save your doc.

see C.10 in
http://www.ucc.ie:8080/cocoon/xmlfaq
for more info



with respect,
Toni Uusitalo

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