input and output default encodings

[Suzanne Dirkers]

Folks,

         I was reading the Xalan documentation APIs and although most of
the samples seem to take ascii xml files as input and also ascii
stylesheets as input, some samples give their output in ebcdic ( ie,
SimpleXPathAPI, if you are on OS390 HFS)..and I was wondering how one knows
what Xalan expects its input files to be in or its output files, and if
there is a way that one might specify a different encoding input or output
scheme.

Thanks,
Suzanne