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RE: Microsoft.XMLDOM UTF-8 Encoding!

Subject: RE: Microsoft.XMLDOM UTF-8 Encoding!
From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 08:41:56 +0200
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> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Rob Rohan
> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 12:30 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Microsoft.XMLDOM UTF-8 Encoding!
> 
> 
> I am going way out here, so please swat me down if I am wrong. If I
> remember correctly the first byte of a file will tell if it is (really)
> utf-8 or iso-8859-1 encoded. You can say its utf-8 in the declaration,

Wrong.

> but if the file is saved with an editor that is only capable of saving
> in iso-8859-1 format, the first byte of the file will say so (something
> about bit order I believe). What you could be running into is a file

No. The BOM (Byte Order Mark) is *optional* in UTF-8.

> that truly is iso-8859-1 (or utf-16 etc) encoded saying its utf-8 - and
> whatever process you are using to read the xml file doesn't buy what you
> are saying.

Correct.

> ...

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