Re: What encodings does Saxon support with unparsed-text()?

On 15.04.2021 19:58, Roger L Costello wrote:

> The Saxon documentation says this about the unparsed-text() function:
>
> unparsed-text($href as xs:string?, $encoding as xs:string) --> xs:string?
>
> Arguments
>
> $href		xs:string?	The URI of the text file to be read
>
> $encoding 	xs:string 	The encoding to be assumed for the text file
>
> As I understand it, if the file pointed to by $href is encoded as Windows 1252 and $encoding has the value "Windows-1252", then Saxon will input the Windows-1252-encoded text and convert it to Unicode, right?
>
> In other words, Saxon takes the input text and uses $encoding to inform Saxon of the text's encoding, and then converts the text to equivalent text that is in a Unicode encoding scheme, right?
>
> What character encoding schemes does Saxon support? Can Saxon convert Windows 1252 text to Unicode? What else?

I would guess that it depends and relies on the underlying Java
platform, for Java 8 a list is at
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/intl/encoding.doc.html