Re: 23.0.60; Defaut encoding for XML files should be undefined (instead of utf-8)

[Edward O'Connor]

Sébastien wrote:

> When I'm opening an XML file that I've saved in iso-latin-1
> encoding, it's not correctly opened if there is no header,
> cookie or local variable telling about my encoding.
>
> This is how it looks like, when opened, as it is read by default
> as utf-8 (while being iso-latin-1):
>     <enumType name="test">
>       <pair value="11">D\373 \340 l'entreprise</pair>
>       <pair value="12">Stagiaire occup\351</pair>
>       <pair value="36">Autres</pair>
>     </enumType>

My understanding is that the XML specification requires XML documents
lacking an explicit <?xml encoding='foo'?> instruction to be UTF-8 or
UTF-16, so Emacs does the right thing already.


Ted