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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: config files proposal
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Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote:
: 
: UTF-8 or UTF-16, as far as I understand.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='...'?>
declares "external representation". External entities in UTF-8/16 must
be read, others may. UTF-8 has the advantage of being stateless and
compatible across wires. We often have
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?>, useless for anything
outside "west-latin" tradition, but good and correct otherwise.

-- georg