Unicode

• XML documents and APIs are Unicode

• Unicode encodings:

  • UTF-8

  • UTF-16 big endian

  • UCS-4 big endian

  • UTF-16 little endian

  • UCS-4 little endian

• Non-Unicode encodings:

  • ASCII (subset of UTF-8)

  • MacRoman

  • Windows ANSI

  • Latin 1 through Latin 15

  • SJIS Japanese

  • Big-5 Chinese

  • K0I8R Cyrillic

  • Many others...