Query regarding encoding/decoding of XML over HTTP Post request

Hello,
I am working on a project where I need to put SMS inside XML and
eventually transfer this XML via HTTP post from/to server/client.
Assuming the SMS to be 7-bit text the XML may look something like
<?xml+version="1.0"?>
<SMS
TESTMESSAGE
</SMS>
This XML when encoded in a HTML post may look something like
http://<IP Address>:<port>/
POST /MessageReceiver.jsp HTTP/1.0
Host: www.SomeHost.net
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 90
xmlMsg=%3C%3Fxml+version%3D%221.0%22%3F%3E%0D%0A%3CSMS%0D%0A%09TESTMESSAGE0D%0A%3C%2FSMS%3E
This xml is UTF-8 (7-bit ASCII) by default since no encoding format has been specified.
My question - how will the encoding of xml change to - when 8 bit binary data
is transferred via xml.
for e.g.
<?xml+version="1.0"?>
<SMS
<!!!!!BINARY DATA!!!!!>
</SMS>
for such a file how/what shld the encoding be set to.
Further my spec-states the following.
"The content of the XML must respect the encoding. Thus a SMS
containing typically french characters must use ISO-8859-1 encoding"
"This code needs to work with both UTF-8 and UTF-16 standards (ASCII and Unicode). Because of this the parsing code should work internally with UTF-16 and translate up/down to/from UTF-8 (ASCII) only when dealing with the basic HTTP."
could anyone clarify this for me.

The first thing you need to do is clear up some fundamental misconceptions about character encodings. UTF-8 is not the same thing as "7-bit ASCII", and UTF-16 is not the same as "Unicode". Anyway, you're making this a lot more difficult than it needs to be. Just use UTF-8 to encode and decode all messages; it can handle all the characters from any language you're likely to run into.

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