Re: [xsl] How to read the encoding of an XML document

["Christopher R. Maden" <crism@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:59 25-10-2001, James Garriss wrote:
> Ok.  If you recall, I started this discussion by mentioning that I am 
> receiving XML documents from several European countries.  So the pertinent 
> question for me is "if UTF-8 and/or UTF-16 will be the output encoding set 
> I must use, will they handle charcters from the languages I care about?"
>
> So it seems to me that I should be safe outputing my data to UTF-16.  That 
> make sense?

Yes.  UTF-8 and UTF-16 both cover the entire Unicode repertoire.  The 
difference is that that UTF-8 uses a different number of bytes for 
different characters, while UTF-16 uses 2 bytes for most characters.  For 
European content, UTF-8 is usually a win; for Asian content, UTF-16 is 
generally better.  But either can represent the entire Unicode repertoire.

-Chris
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