- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 07:48:59 +0900
- To: Simon Josefsson <simon+ietf-charsets@josefsson.org>
- Cc: ietf-charsets@iana.org
At 15:35 02/10/03 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: >Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org> writes: > > Therefore, senders SHOULD NOT use the BOM in larger, usually > > labeled, pieces of text (e.g. MIME entities), and MUST NOT > > use it in smaller protocol elements (usually with a fixed > > encoding). Receivers SHOULD recognize and remove the BOM > > in larger, usually labeled, pieces of text (e.g. MIME entities). > >This still says that implementations should support BOM, which I think >is bad practice. If I were to follow this practice in a MUA I would >break digital signatures on UTF-8 data. How about changing the last >sentence into the following: > > Receivers MAY recognize and remove the BOM in larger, usually > labeled, pieces of text (e.g. MIME entities), if it requires > compability with software that generates it. Care should be taken > to not remove BOM in data that must be preserved correctly (such as > digitally signed data). I think this is fine. Regards, Martin.
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