• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• To: "Volkmann, Mark" <Mark.Volkmann@A...>, "'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 12:09:53 -0800

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.

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