Re: XmlDocument and utf-8

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On Jun 18, 3:29 am, stch...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Steven Cheng[MSFT])
wrote:
Yes, both "UTF-8" and "utf-8" is ok for the charset in XML declaration
section. And the .net framework XmlDocument just always convert the charset
value to lower case for consistency purpose.

In addition, the <?xml ....?> declaration's charset value is only a
suggestion value for some XML processing programs, the actual
charset/encoding format of a XML document/file still rely on how you write
out the document(through file I/O api). In other words, the actual
charset/encoding of a XML file may be different from the charset
declaration in the <?xml ....?> section

It's not really a "suggestion" - it's the encoding which should be
used to parse the rest of the document. If you claim (in the
declaration) to use UTF-8 and actually use some other encoding, XML
parsers are almost certainly going to fail to understand the data in
the way you expect.

Jon

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