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  • From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@g...>
  • To: "Arnold, Curt" <Curt.Arnold@h...>, xml-dev@l...
  • Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 20:19:33 +0200

> From: Arnold, Curt [mailto:Curt.Arnold@h...]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 8:06 PM
> To: 'xml-dev@l...'
> Subject: RE: How to specify a Processing Instruction? (better: how to
> cont rol encoding on saving)
>
> ...
>
> XML processors are required by the spec to support UTF-8 and
> UTF-16, support for all other encodings (including ISO-8859-1) is
> optional.  If your "server" only recognizes ISO-8859-1, then it is non
> conformant with the XML 1.0 specification.  Forcing the encoding
> to be ISO-8859-1 will cause the serialization to fail if there
> are any characters with Unicode code points > 255 since those cannot be
> represented by ISO-8859-1.

Only if they appear as part of names. Otherwise they can be serialized as
entities.


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