Re: draft-hoffman-utf16-01.txt available

Larry Masinter wrote:
> Appendix F of the XML specification
> 
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210#sec-guessing)
> 
> makes it clear that BOM isn't actually necessary for auto-guessing
> of charset between UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE, because of the differing
> encodings of "<" and "?" in the initial "<?".

Actually, external DTD subsets, external parsed entities, and external 
parameter entites do not have to begin with "<".  In particular, 
external parsed entities can begin with any character.  To allow 
autodetection, XML 1.0 requires that external parsed entities must begin 
either the BOM or text declarations, if not in UTF-8.

Makoto
 
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