Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Bad Continuation of Multi-Byte UTF-8 Sequence

[Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>]

Holger Rauch writes:
 > Does that mean that if I want UTF-8, I explicitly have to specify
 > encoding="utf-8" in my XML declaration? I had the impression since utf-8
 > is the default encoding, it does not have to be specified explicitly, but
 > maybe I'm wrong...

neither. yes, utf8 is the default, but emacs does not know that. emacs
does not read the xml encoding. 

actually, my hacks to emacs in the tei-emacs bundle *do* read the XML
encoding and act appropriately, but they are not widely used (or tested!)

Sebastian