On 13 Mar 2017, at 18:54, Matthew A. Miller <linuxwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > no > one (that I recall) reported implementing the detection table. There even was one that implemented something for UTF-16/32: Jackson. The author said: "Most other libraries just punt the problem by requiring caller to pass in Reader that does byte->char decoding” (He did not say whether his code was ever exercised outside of his test cases :-) He also mentioned that, by contrast, most XML libraries do implement auto-detection (as they should). Grüße, Carsten