XML Character Encoding
By default, XML functions support the UTF-8 character encoding for XML input documents.
Examples of UTF-8 encoding:
No encoding specified:
"<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>"
UTF-8 specified:
"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding =\"UTF-8\"?>"
XML functions support any locally defined encoding. For encoding other than UTF-8, the client and server must use the same encoding.
Example:
SHIFT_JIS specified:
"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding =\"SHIFT_JIS\"?>"