A character encoding -- or more formally a “coded character set” -- is a character set and its numerical representation.

If your XML document’s character encoding is anything other than UTF-8, you can use HydraExpress’ international capabilities to convert it to and from your own encoding in order to manipulate it in the encoding of your choice.

The related code examples on internationalization refer to the Unicode encoding forms UTF-8 and UTF-16, as they are used internally by HydraExpress to manipulate text and convert XML documents between UTF-8 and other encodings.