This question is at best marginally connected to the subject of this
list, but

> I have a xml with utf-8 encoding,

> While reading the xml file I am providing the encoding
> as windows-1252, 

I don't know the API that you are using, but doesn't this mean you are
specifying an encoding that you know to be incorect? If the file is in
utf8 why specify a microsoft encoding?

David

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