on vacation...no problem
"in the above cases".....but isn't that a catch 22. How can you read
what encoding it is, if you don't know what encoding it is?
thanks,
dean
Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
Hi, Dean,
sorry for replying late to your various mails. I've been in vacation
until today. Trying to work up my old mails. Expect me to reply to
everything until tomorrow.
Dean Hiller wrote:
so what is the point of the xml spec having the encoding attribute if
you have to figure out the encoding before you even get to the
specified encoding.
Detecting the encoding from the first bytes is not always possible.
There are a real lot of encodings, which are upwards compatible to
ASCII in the range of 0..127, for example US-ASCII itself (obviously),
ISO-8859-1, and UTF-8.
In the above cases, the encoding is required.
Jochen
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