RE: [xml-dev] FInding encoding

• To: "'Ravi Shankar Nair'" <sujashankar@...>,"'XML Developers List'" <xml-dev@...>
• Subject: RE: [xml-dev] FInding encoding
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@...>
• Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:16:29 -0000
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> Given an XML file, how can I find the encoding of it? Please 
> give me some 
> APi by which I can know what encoding is used for that XML.

Most APIs don't tell you the encoding, because you don't need to know: by
the time your application sees the content, it has been decoded from its
original encoding into the native representation of your programming
language.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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