How to ask sax for the file encoding

[Fredrik Lundh]

Edward K. Ream wrote:

> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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> so it would seem reasonable for sax to be able to return 'utf-8' somehow.

why?  that's an encoding detail, and should be completely irrelevant for
your application.

> Am I missing something?

you're confusing artifacts of an external serialization format with the actual
data model.  don't do that, if you can avoid it.

what's your use case ?

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