default encoding for XML is UTF-8 or UTF-16?
Either you have to use a line like <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”iso-8859-1″ ?> to specify which encoding is used. If the encoding is not specified, a Byte order mark (BOM) can be present. If a BOM for either UTF-16 or UTF-32 is present, that encoding is used. Otherwise UTF-8 is the encoding. (The BOM for UTF-8 … Read more