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At 10:43 16/01/98 -0500, David Megginson wrote: >Peter Murray-Rust writes: > >The XML source for the PR is encoded in ISO-8859-1 but has no encoding >declaration (so AElfred assumes UTF-8, and reports an encoding error, >though not very helpfully, when it finds an invalid UTF-8 sequence). >The WG is aware of the problem. Thanks. I am also aware of it now :-). Can I make the assumption that: - ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 look identical to not-very-experienced humans. - in principle I should be able to sort this by adding something like <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> to the top of the document - in practice this fails because by the time it gets to the encoding declaration it has already assumed the encoding is UTF-8 and has crashed :-) I am not quite clear why we need this problem. Do different tools emit different encodings? If so, what should I work with?. Can I convert this document? I know there has been lots of important discussions about encodings (which I have not always read very carefully), so an authoritative statement from a WG member would help at least one human :-) P. Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic net connection VSMS http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms, Virtual Hyperglossary http://www.venus.co.uk/vhg xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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