[Bug 12950] Require Byte-Order Mark (BOM) in UTF-8 encoded pages

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12950

Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3cbug@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3cbug@gmail.com> 2011-06-14 22:53:06 UTC ---
BOMs consist of invisible characters.  Ensuring you have a BOM, or adding one
if you don't, is not trivial -- at a minimum, the procedure will be completely
different for different text editors.  Allowing BOMs is fine, but requiring
them isn't.  Some people will want to edit HTML as plain text with no magic
characters anywhere, and that's a reasonable position.

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Received on Tuesday, 14 June 2011 22:53:09 UTC