It looks like we have part of the answer to the charset question....

[Dick Brooks <dick@8760.com>]

This is an excerpt from the architecture spec:

h. Facilitate multi-lingual support.  EbXML specification shall be 
     compliant with Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 for character set, and 
     UTF-8 or UTF-16 for character encoding.  An attribute "xml:lang" 
     may be inserted in an element to specify the language in which 
     the content is written, if explicit identification is needed.  
     The value of the attribute is complied with the section "1.12  
     Language identification" in XML 1.0 specification. 


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