Re: 8bit ascii encoding

> If I choose utf-8 as my
> output encoding, there will be no BOM 

usually there isn't one but XML 1.0 2nd edition clarifies that a UTF8 BOM is
allowed. 

> and characters in the original
> ascii range will be output exactly as if I had chosen ascii...? (0-127) 

yes


> So in theory, any program that takes the output, copies it byte-for-byte
> and adds some its own bytes in ascii, would maintain the original utf-8
> encoding (therefore any program told to read it in utf-8 would be
> successful).  Is this sound?

yes, just make sure you don't add any latin-1 characters in latin-1
(single byte) encoding, that's where people usually fall over. Adding
adding a poung sign as £ will break your file.

David

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