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Document encoding limitations (#57)
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howard authored Jun 5, 2018
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* The format is prone to encoding issues if non-UTF-8 data is fed into it.
* Total export size is limited by file size, while XML pagination theoretically allows exports of arbitrary size.

#### Limitations

Currently, only input text encoded in UTF-8 is supported. To use this library with other types of encoding, one of the
following is necessary:

* Convert all text to UTF-8 prior to passing it to `libflexport`.
* Use the XML exporter and modify the library to change the XML header to contain the required encoding.
* FINDOLOGIC is capable of handling most encodings, but only with XML.

## Basic usage

### Setup
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