- From: Dan Kegel <dank@alumni.caltech.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 13:56:08 -0700
- To: Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@INNOSOFT.COM>, "Martin J. Duerst" <duerst@w3.org>
- Cc: MURATA Makoto <murata@apsdc.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp>, ietf-charsets@ISI.EDU, murata@fxis.fujixerox.co.jp, Tatsuo_Kobayashi@justsystem.co.jp
At 01:32 PM 5/24/98 -0700, Chris Newman wrote: >We should forbid use of little-endian UTF-16 in IETF protocols. Otherwise >we risk giving the community which opposes Unicode some legitimate >ammunition to fight it. Perhaps a middle ground, here? How about this (suitably reworded): UTF-16 generators SHOULD [MUST?] NOT send in little-endian byte order, but if they do, they MUST prefix the stream with a little-endian BOM. UTF-16 consumers MUST assume the default byte-order is big-endian, but MUST also accept little-endian if prefixed with a little-endian BOM. That way, big-endian is preferred, yet interoperability is preserved. - Dan --Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)
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