If I choose utf-8 as my
output encoding, there will be no BOM
usually there isn't one but XML 1.0 2nd edition clarifies that a UTF8 BOM is
allowed.
and characters in the original
ascii range will be output exactly as if I had chosen ascii...? (0-127)
yes
So in theory, any program that takes the output, copies it byte-for-byte
and adds some its own bytes in ascii, would maintain the original utf-8
encoding (therefore any program told to read it in utf-8 would be
successful). Is this sound?
yes, just make sure you don't add any latin-1 characters in latin-1
(single byte) encoding, that's where people usually fall over. Adding
adding a poung sign as £ will break your file.
David
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