- From: Langer, Paul <Paul.Langer@softwareag.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 09:03:48 +0100
- To: "'www-international@w3.org'" <www-international@w3.org>
- Cc: "Langer, Paul" <Paul.Langer@softwareag.com>
-----Original Message----- From: Nir Dagan [mailto:nir@nirdagan.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 9:03 PM Subject: RE: Localization of XML > [snip] > XML requires an processing instruction about the encoding > whenever the encoding is not UTF-8. > [snip] > This is true even if a charset parameter is provided > by an HTTP header. No. Please see chapter 4.3.3 of the XML spec: "In the absence of information provided by an external transport protocol (e.g. HTTP or MIME), it is an error ... for an entity which begins with neither a Byte Order Mark nor an encoding declaration to use an encoding other than UTF-8." (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#charencoding) All the best, Paul ------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Langer E-mail Paul.Langer@softwareag.com Software AG Tel. +49-6151-92-1912 Uhlandstr. 12 Fax +49-6151-92-1613 64297 Darmstadt
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