CodeSnip downloads news about the program and database as an RSS feed from DelphiDabbler.com.
The feed is generated as an RSS XML document using the default encoding used by the DelphiDabbler web server, ISO-8859-1. The XML document has no encoding information embedded in it.
CodeSnip's HTTP handling code gets the RSS document as text and converts it to a Unicode string using the encoding indicated by the web service (ISO-8859-1 by default).
The XML is then parsed as a Unicode string.
Therefore, although no explicit encoding information is embedded in the XML, the document is translated to Unicode correctly and information is preserved.