From e61e0793f45f52746ea02dc62fb9c3ef494622fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dennis Schafroth <dennis@indexdata.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:50:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Default to UTF-8 instead of throwing exception

---
 src/org/marc4j/TurboMarcXmlWriter.java |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/org/marc4j/TurboMarcXmlWriter.java b/src/org/marc4j/TurboMarcXmlWriter.java
index 8e89f5a..2645e79 100644
--- a/src/org/marc4j/TurboMarcXmlWriter.java
+++ b/src/org/marc4j/TurboMarcXmlWriter.java
@@ -275,7 +275,8 @@ public class TurboMarcXmlWriter implements MarcWriter {
             throw new NullPointerException("null OutputStream");
         }
         if (encoding == null) {
-            throw new NullPointerException("null encoding");
+          // Default to UTF-8
+          encoding = "UTF8";
         }
         try {
             setIndent(indent);
-- 
1.7.10.4