I am wondering how encoding works in JaxME(and in general)

Say I have a header bytes.  Now, I happen to know those bytes are encoded
in utf-16 and so I can parse the header to the following.....

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>

1. Isn't this a catch 22?  I can only read this into a string if I know
ahead of time that it is utf-16(in which case, specifying encoding
attribute is useless)?
2. OR is the header always in ascii and then when I get to the encoding, I
know to read in everything else as utf-16?
3. If this is the case though, what happens in the xml documents that are
in files.  They all have this catch-22 problem.  I mean, i can open the
file in ascii and then save it as utf-8 or utf-16.  I can't save the
header as ascii and the rest as utf-16.

How does encoding work with JaxME?
thanks,
dean


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