XML Markup Formatting Question

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Hello,

I noticed that when I have a xml source file with the language "German" which has the starting markup in it:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes'?>

in the "English" target file it gets converted to this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>

Can someone explain to me why this is happening and if there is an option to turn this off?
Am I correct however, if I say that the change actually does not cause any problems? Meaning the "x" is equally valid as 'x'?

Thank you for any help! :)

Greetings

Paul Filkin · Accepted Answer

Christian Schmidt

First of all, no, you can't turn this off. Secondly, in theory it should not make a difference (double quotes vs single quotes, and lowercase vs uppercase UTF). But some applications may not like it... recently we heard about Moodle for example which won't accept XML with a lowercase utf.

We discussed with the filetype manager and he sees no reason to change this because he believes all applications should be able to handle this without concern.

Paul Filkin | RWS

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