xml encoding in rdf/xml?

From: Benjamin Nowack <office@e-senses.de> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 00:53:44 +0200 To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org Message-ID: <PM-EH.20031015005344.C09FF.1.1D@192.168.27.2> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Monday, 7 December 2009 10:52:02 GMT

Hi all,

I get some validation errors with german characters in the 
RDF/XML of my OWL ontology. I know that I can't use html 
entities such as "&auml;" in XML but was wondering if it 
is "allowed" to simply set the XML encoding attribute of 
the XML declaration to "iso-8859-1" (which works fine with 
the available online RDF validators) or if I should 
better (or have to) UTF-8-encode all the Literals..

(My app is based on PHP which has an utf8_encode function, but
this somehow only produces binary encodings when I try to 
serialize the ontology on a windows system...)

thanx in advance,
Benjamin

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