>Now I know there are characters in XML that you have to do special codes for (copyright symbol, restricted symbol, e with the ` on top of it), but my question is, how do people in other countries do it when they use those symbols all the time? Is there some kind of language setting or something?
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>Just curious... I'm not trying to sneak around the special codes.

For norwegian characters, I have this line as the first line in the XML I create:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

The important part is encoding="iso-8859-1"