Question about character encoding

[lis123]

Hello, I am looking for some information, and hoping one of you kind people could help me.

What type of character encoding does a .odt file use is it UTF-8 ?? Also, what is the default character set, is it ISO 8859-1 ?

Any insight into the encoding and character set used by .odt would be super helpful.

Thanks!!!

[John_Ha]

I don't know but a .odt file is actually a ZIP file. Unzip it and look at content.xml. Does that answer your question? If not see The Apache OpenOffice Wiki

[Jan_J]

The editor works internally with unicode.

Inside .odt ZIP container, most of the content is stored as XML files. XML rules state that encoding must be utf-8, unless preamble declaration change it explicitly.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="current_encoding_name_here" ?>

In practice my documents are always utf-8.