- From: Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>
- Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:17:11 -0800
- To: "'HTML WG'" <public-html@w3.org>
Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: > I don't see anything making a BOM illegal in > UTF-16LE/UTF-16BE, in fact, the only mention I find of it > with regards to either in Unicode 5.0 is "In UTF-16(BE|LE), > an initial byte sequence <(FE FF|FF FE)> is interpreted as > U+FEFF zero width no-break space." Right, a BOM cannot appear in a -BE/-LE document. The Unicode 5.0 specification has seperate recommendations for when to produce a -BE/-LE document with a leading U+FEFF (don't do it), and how to process documents that disregard that reocmmendation (treat it as a ZWNBS). - Brian
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