[Bug 12897] UTF-8 BOM should trump users and/or HTTP (Encoding sniffing algorithm)

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12897

--- Comment #13 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> 2011-06-09 12:34:05 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> libxml2 is a rare exception - for HTTP, it behaves as RFC3023 specifices, thus
> we can count libxml, Opera and Firefox:
> 
> $: xmllint http://malform.no/testing/html5/bom/xml.html

However, for file:// operations, then it does not do what XML 1.0 specifies: It
ignores the UTF-8 BOM. And obeyes the XML encoding declaration.

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Received on Thursday, 9 June 2011 12:34:07 UTC