a propos the ANSI thing, bugged me so I went to look it up. ANSI is a superset
of ISO-8859-1, identical with chars 32 to 126, also known as Windows-1252.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin-1

not sure where I got the idea that ANSI was an early implementation of
ISO-8859-1 that came out before the standard was finished. 




-- 
Bryan Rasmussen


Quoting David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>:

> 
> 
>   and the xml file only has the english character set then the output has an
> xml
>   declaration of utf-8 but the actual content of the document is ANSI
> 
> By ANSI I assume you mean some MS specific code page?
> If the file only has english characters in it then ASCII = UTF8 = most
> Microsoft code pages that extend ASCII.
> 
> So how can you tell that the file is not utf8 encoded?
> 
> David
> 
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