Was not talking about MarcXML in this thread, shifted to talking about 
Marc21 binary, changed the subject and started a new thread accordingly.

On 4/18/2012 10:23 AM, LeVan,Ralph wrote:
>> In fact, I worry that the standard may pre-date UTF-8, with it's
>> reference to "UCS" ---  if I understand things right, at one point
> there
>> was only one unicode encoding, called "UCS", which is basically a
>> backwards-compatible subset of what became UTF-16.
>
>> So I worry the standard really "means" UCS/UTF-16.
>
> Now you're just trying to scare yourself.  I've never seen UTF-16
> MarcXML.  I've never seen anything but UTF-8 encoded MarcXML.
>
> Ralph
>