You can always represent all of Unicode in an XML document using entities, but that is a separate issue from the encoding used by a particular XML document and whether and how it gets converted upon parsing. Your post sounds like you have a heap of flawed assumptions about encodings. (To be sure, most people do, I am not scolding you.) Please read The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) The topic is complex and much harder to consume than first appearances suggest. I have it down fairly solidly at this point (after a good bit of work), and I still occasionally embarrass myself.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^3: Character Conversion Conundrum by Aristotle
in thread Character Conversion Conundrum by SheridanCat

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