Jezz, don't sugar coat it Julian - just come right out with it. I hope
you don't talk to you significant other that way :-/

Cheers

On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 23:41, Julian Reschke wrote:
> > I am going way out here, so please swat me down if I am wrong. If I
> > remember correctly the first byte of a file will tell if it is (really)
> > utf-8 or iso-8859-1 encoded. You can say its utf-8 in the declaration,
> 
> Wrong.
> 
> > but if the file is saved with an editor that is only capable of saving
> > in iso-8859-1 format, the first byte of the file will say so (something
> > about bit order I believe). What you could be running into is a file
> 
> No. The BOM (Byte Order Mark) is *optional* in UTF-8.
> 
> > that truly is iso-8859-1 (or utf-16 etc) encoded saying its utf-8 - and
> > whatever process you are using to read the xml file doesn't buy what you
> > are saying.
> 
> Correct.
> 
> > ...
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