[jdom-interest] document encoding

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 10:59 AM +0200 6/28/01, Ken Rune Helland wrote:

>Maybe a FilterStream/FilterReader subclass that locks for
>the <?xml ... ?> line and remebers the encoding declared.
>

It's doable, but not as easy as you think. Make sure you pay 
attention to the byte order mark, and use the heuristics listed in 
the XML spec. Be careful to handle the case where there is not XML 
declaration. You cannot just assume that the beginning of the file 
can be read as ASCII. In many cases, it can't be.
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