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AryehSanders April 18, 2012 at 10:30 pm
Reply to: XMetaL 5.5 does not correctly detect UTF-8? Anyone know if new versions do?
April 18, 2012 at 10:30 pmOur actual documents do have a valid DOCTYPE. This file is just a minimal test case. XMetaL handles the characters the same way with a DOCTYPE and without. If there is neither an xml declaration (http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/#charencoding), it says “it is a fatal error… for an entity which begins with neither a Byte Order Mark nor an encoding declaration to use an encoding other than UTF-8.” Latin1 isn't a really an option. The spec does not require a BOM or an xml declaration, even though it does recommend the xml declaration.
Thanks again.
