[I18n-sig] XML and UTF-16

[Tom Emerson]

Paul Prescod writes:
> I think so. UTF-32 is a 32-bit encoding and 32 bits are 4 bytes. You
> only need one character (either a BOM or a "<") sign to know what you
> are dealing with.

Well, you know that the first UTF-32 character is "<", but no
more. I'd at least look for "<?xml" to be absolutely sure, but I'm
also overly paranoid. You could be looking at "<!DOCTYPE" or some
such.

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