[xml] Serialization of documents without encoding

libxml2 serializes documents without an encoding declaration differently than documents with an explicit UTF-8 encoding: $ echo 'Käse' |xmllint - Käse $ echo 'Käse' |xmllint - Käse Since the encoding should default to UTF-8, can anyone explain why this decision was made? Nick

Re: [xml] Serialization of documents without encoding

On 25/09/2018 13:19, Nick Wellnhofer wrote: libxml2 serializes documents without an encoding declaration differently than documents with an explicit UTF-8 encoding: It seems that this was partially changed in 2005 with the following commit: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/commit/64354ea