You use UTF-8 encoding so characters like èéêë should be represented in your file like èéêë.
But your document will be valid XML.
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Valid XML Documents
A "Valid" XML document also conforms to a DTD.
A "Valid" XML document is a "Well Formed" XML document, which also conforms to the rules of a Document Type Definition (DTD)
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Quickie: is the XML below valid?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<elem>
é è ç
</elem>
Or should the element body be in a CDATA block?
... or should i use some &thingie; for those chars...
I have no idea.
Thanks