> The encoding _is_ irrelevant, in the very moment you get unicode strings.
We shall have to disagree about this. My use case is perfectly reasonable,
imo.
> If you write out xml again, use whatever encoding suits you best.
What suits me best is what the *user* specified, and that got put in the
first xml line.
I'm going to have to parse this line myself.
Edward
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