How to ask sax for the file encoding

Edward K. Ream edreamleo at charter.net
Wed Oct 4 12:33:44 EDT 2006


> The encoding _is_ irrelevant, in the very moment you get unicode strings.

We shall have to disagree about this.  My use case is perfectly reasonable, 
imo.

> If you write out xml again, use whatever encoding suits you best.

What suits me best is what the *user* specified, and that got put in the 
first xml line.
I'm going to have to parse this line myself.

Edward
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