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Re: Entity Reference Question
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- Subject: Re: Entity Reference Question
- From: Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 14:20:33 -0600 (MDT)
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Mike Brown wrote:
> Lee Goddard wrote:
> > XML is by default UTF-8, must support UTF-16,
>
> Clarification:
>
> UTF-8 will be assumed in the absence of both an encoding declaration and a
> byte order mark at the beginning of the document. It is possible to omit
> the encoding declaration but still have it be UTF-16.
Er, actually, also, you can specify the encoding in the transport, e.g. in
an HTTP or MIME Content-Type header. So there are various ways to say a
document is UTF-16 without actually putting it in the prolog.
- Mike
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