Please skip BOM about etree HOT 6 CLOSED

I tried to convert that file to ascii myself, but got into the following problem when doing ReadFrom():

xml: encoding "utf-16" declared but Decoder.CharsetReader is nil

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Attaching the simple example.xml file for you to try it out...

example.zip

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After removing the BOM char myself, when doing ReadFrom(), I'll get:

XML syntax error on line 1: expected element name after <

"MS is the source of all evil & trouble". Yes, I totally agree.

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After removing the stupid first line <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>, I'm getting:

XML syntax error on line 1: illegal character code U+0000

$ head -1 et_example.xml | hexdump -C
00000000  00 3c 00 54 00 72 00 61  00 63 00 65 00 44 00 61  |.<.T.r.a.c.e.D.a|
00000010  00 74 00 61 00 20 00 78  00 6d 00 6c 00 6e 00 73  |.t.a. .x.m.l.n.s|
00000020  00 3d 00 22 00 68 00 74  00 74 00 70 00 3a 00 2f  |.=.".h.t.t.p.:./|
00000030  00 2f 00 74 00 65 00 6d  00 70 00 75 00 72 00 69  |./.t.e.m.p.u.r.i|
00000040  00 2e 00 6f 00 72 00 67  00 2f 00 54 00 72 00 61  |...o.r.g./.T.r.a|
00000050  00 63 00 65 00 50 00 65  00 72 00 73 00 69 00 73  |.c.e.P.e.r.s.i.s|
00000060  00 74 00 65 00 6e 00 63  00 65 00 2e 00 78 00 73  |.t.e.n.c.e...x.s|
00000070  00 64 00 22 00 3e 00 0d  00 0a                    |.d.".>....|
0000007a

Attaching the witched file:
et_example.zip

So, basically, if you could make this file being read as-is without any issues, that'd be super.
thanks a lot.

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It looks like you're trying to read a UTF16-encoded file. You should probably use the unicode/utf16 library to decode it, re-encode it to UTF8 using unicode/utf8, and then pass it to etree.

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Closing this issue since I haven't seen a response. Please feel free to reopen if my response doesn't help you.

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