A couple of pointers: Personally and professionally, I take the stance that any XML file that doesn't start with the endianness 2-byte code is NOT unicode. Anything within that group that doesn't say something about it's encoding in the text declaration will be interpreted as being 7-bit ASCII, and any character entities I encounter that exceed the 7-bit range (like Í or whatever) are invalid and the whole file is rejected unless clear agreements have been made about the actual encoding of the content.

If you make any other assumptions you will be miserable later. I know I have :-/

The numeric entities can open up a can of worms that's hard to close after the fact: you can decide on an ASCII encoded XML file, but the actual content can be unicode, LATIN-1, japanese or whatever, so you need to decide on the encoding of the content seperately. (Please someone, correct me if I'm wrong. This has been bugging me for too long)

Just my €0.02.
Joost.

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

In reply to Re: Guess between UTF8 and Latin1/ISO-8859-1 by Joost
in thread Guess between UTF8 and Latin1/ISO-8859-1 by Jenda

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