Encoding

The Encoding preferences panel is opened from menu Options > Preferences > Encoding

The encoding preferences are the following:

• Encoding for non XML files - The default encoding used when the application opens non XML documents. This is necessary because non XML files have a large variety of formats and there is no standard mechanism for declaring the encoding that should be used for opening and saving the file. In case of XML files, the encoding is declared at the beginning of the file in a special declaration element or it is assumed to be the default value, which is UTF-8.
• UTF-8 BOM handling - Specifies how to handle the Byte Order Mark (BOM) when Oxygen XML Developer saves an UTF-8 XML document:
  • Don't Write - Do not save the BOM bytes. Loaded BOM bytes are ignored;
  • Write - Save the BOM bytes;
  • Keep - Do not alter the BOM declaration of the currently open file. This is the default option.
  Note: The UTF-16 BOM is always preserved. UTF-32 documents have a big-endian byte order.
• Encoding errors handling - This option defines how to handle characters that cannot be represented in the specified encoding of the document when the document is opened. The available options are:
  • REPORT - Shows an error dialog box with the character that cannot be represented in the specified encoding. Unrecognized characters are rendered as an empty box. This is the default option.
  • IGNORE - The character is ignored and it is not included in the document displayed in the editor panel.
    Attention: If you edit and save the document, the characters that cannot be represented in the specified encoding are dropped.
  • REPLACE - Replace the character with a standard replacement character. For example, if the encoding is UTF-8, the replacement character has the Unicode code FFFD, and if the encoding is ASCII, the replacement character code is 63.