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Recommendations and Tips (Magic xpi 4.9)
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Do not use binary encoding to store textual content. Use Unicode instead. 
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XML encoding is defined as part of the data in the XML header. If you perform any encoding conversion on XML content, be sure to match the header. 
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An XML without a header is treated by the parsers as UTF-8. 
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When updating Unicode content to ANSI, you will lose any multibyte data that does not match your machine’s non-Unicode encoding. 
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Before performing any textual manipulation on UTF-8 content, convert the content to Unicode using the UTF8toUnicode function. If necessary, the data can be converted back to UTF-8 using the UTF8fromUnicode function. 
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Do not use the system encoding for Data Mapper XML Destinations. Instead, you should select the required encoding. This will ensure that the correct BLOB type is generated. 
 
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