default encoding

[James Clark]

Tim Bray wrote:
> 
> At 01:50 PM 11/12/99 -0600, Volkmann, Mark wrote:
> >If I start an XML document with
> ><?xml version="1.0"?>
> >what is the default encoding?
> >Is it just determined based on the first four bytes?
> 
> UTF-8 unless otherwise specified. -T.

Or unless the first two bytes are a byte order mark, in which case it is
UTF-16.

James



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