permissible encodings of the mimetype file (ODF 1.2 Part 3 Draft 12)

["Alex Brown" <alexb@griffinbrown.co.uk>]

Dear all,

PD1.3.4

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the content of the "mimetype" file shall be equal to the value of the
manifest:media-type attribute
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What are the permissible encodings for this file's content? Is UTF-16
for example allowed?

- Alex.