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RE: SAXON and UTF-8


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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