Am I right to assume that Fantom not yet supports xml declarations, especially the encoding attribute as in <?xml encoding="whatever" ?> (http://xmlwriter.net/xml_guide/xml_declaration.shtml). I scanned the source code for XParser but couldn't find any related code.

I understand that, as a workaround, &# can be used instead. But since numerous editors and IDEs (including Eclipse) support it by now, it'd be nice if it were supported by Fantom as well.

Am I than right to assume that the OS default encoding is used? Or -Dfile.encoding=whatever in case of JVM. Or does Fantom have something similar? What encoding is used for property files? I saw sys:Charset defaults to utf8.

I'm new to Fantom, but I'd be willing to provide a patch for XParser.

-Juergen

Hi Juergen,

Welcome to Fantom!

Right now XParser just decodes using the charset of the InStream passed into it. By default everything across the board uses UTF-8 in Fantom (source files and all I/O streams).

You can explicit change the encoding using:

• sys::Buf.charset
• sys::InStream.charset
• sys::OutStream.charset