[JDEV] character encoding in jabber protocol

[Matthias Wimmer]

Hi Andreas!

Andreas Ames wrote:

>I was under the impression, that jabber requires the use of utf-8
>encoding (on the wire) but can't seem to find any reference to that
>(not even in the rfc).  Furthermore I found in the 1.4.2 source that
>expat is instantiated with XML_CreateParser(*NULL*) instead of "UTF-8"
>as I expected.  Are there other encodings than utf-8 allowed?
>  
>
Why not just trying? I just tested it with a telnet session to my 
server's port 5222. When I start the session with <?xml version='1.0' 
encoding='ISO-8859-1'?> I can send messages that encode their content in 
Latin-1.
But what you get back from the server is always UTF-8 ... and I wouldn't 
expect that it works with every Jabber server even if it is correct XML.

Tot kijk
    Matthias

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