Method setEncoding

xmlparser/decoder.go:164–177

setEncoding recreates the reader with the specified encoding.

(encoding string)

// setEncoding recreates the reader with the specified encoding.
func (d *Decoder) setEncoding(encoding string) bool {
	// Recreate the reader with the specified encoding.
	// We are going to wrap bufio.Reader with bufio.Reader again,
	// but non-UTF-8 encodings are rare, so this should be fine.
	newr, err := charset.NewReaderLabel(encoding, d.r)
	if err != nil {
		d.err = fmt.Errorf("can't create reader for encoding %q: %w", encoding, err)
		return false
	}

	d.setReader(newr)

	return true
}

// checkBOM checks for a Byte Order Mark (BOM) at the start of the stream
// and adjusts the reader accordingly.