- From: Francois Yergeau <FYergeau@alis.com>
- Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 15:52:47 -0400
- To: ietf-charsets@iana.org
Martin Duerst wrote: > As far as I understand most contributions on the list in the past > day or so, the standard should discourage the BOM, but it currently > doesn't. That much is clear. It seems there will have to be a draft-03 with some additional language in that direction. > > > UTF-8 never needs a 'byte-order' signature. > > > >This is unfortunately not true, except in the limited realm > >of properly internationalized protocols > > As for example IETF protocols. Errr, some IETF protocols. I have no way to tell an FTP server what is the charset of a file I'm uploading, nor does the server have any way of telling me the charset of a file I'm downloading. And even if it had a way (like in HTTP), the server most probably wouldn't know and would either not tell or lie. -- François
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