Setting encoding in XML files
Solution 1
If all fails, read the spec :-).
4.3.3 Character Encoding in Entities
Each external parsed entity in an XML document may use a different encoding for its characters.
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In an encoding declaration, the values " UTF-8 ", " UTF-16 ", " ISO-10646-UCS-2 ", and " ISO-10646-UCS-4 " SHOULD be used for the various encodings and transformations of Unicode / ISO/IEC 10646, the values " ISO-8859-1 ", " ISO-8859-2 ", ... " ISO-8859- n " (where n is the part number) SHOULD be used for the parts of ISO 8859, and the values " ISO-2022-JP ", " Shift_JIS ", and " EUC-JP " SHOULD be used for the various encoded forms of JIS X-0208-1997.
It is RECOMMENDED that character encodings registered (as charsets) with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority IANA-CHARSETS, other than those just listed, be referred to using their registered names; other encodings SHOULD use names starting with an "x-" prefix.
Source: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/
So UTF-8 is written as encoding="UTF-8".
For other character sets not listed above, use the names given in the IANA character set list.
Case of the letters in the character set name is not significant: "However, no distinction is made
between use of upper and lower case letters." (IANA character set list). So you could also write
encoding="uTf-8" if you feel like it ;-).
BTW: Are you really, really certain you want to write your own XML parser? This sounds suspiciously like reinventing the wheel.
Solution 2
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
should be fine for utf-8.
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Albus Dumbledore about 2 years
Which are the valid xml encoding strings? For instance, what is the way of specifying UTF-8:
encoding="utf8"encoding="utf8"- etc
Or Windows 1251:
encoding="windows-1251"encoding="windows1251"encoding="cp-1251"- etc.
I am making a character decoder as well as a xml parser. Thus, I need to be able to set the encoding of my StreamReader based on the value from the encoding attribute.
Any ideas where I could find a list of the official encoding string?
The best I could find is this, but it seems to be IE specific.
Thanks!