• From: James Clark <jjc@j...>
• To: "'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 07:40:26 +0700

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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