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RE: SAXON and UTF-8
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] SAXON and UTF-8
- From: "Scott Carter" <scottc at turbopower dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:31:11 -0600
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Please see the following FAQ entry from the Unicode web site:
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/utf_bom.html#25.
Scott Carter
TurboPower Software
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Goetz Bock [mailto:bock@blacknet.de]
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 8:19 AM
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: Re: [xsl] SAXON and UTF-8
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 27 '01 at 15:47, Julian Reschke wrote:
> > But then maybe it's the missing support for UTF-8 Byte Order Marks?
> UTF-8 does not feature a Byte Order Mark, only UTF-16 does.
>
> An xml file must either start with an BOM, than it is UTF-16, or <?
> than it's what ever encoding is defines. Note that all characters in
> the xml decleration:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
>
> must be ASCII 7bit (what AFAIK is the same for all Unicode encodings).
>
> BTW: The original author already noted, that the error is 1477 bytes
> into the docukent. So this mail is just to fight the FUD.
>
> --
> Goetz Bock IT Consultant
> Dipl.-Inf. Univ.
>
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