[Bug 2519] Byte-order-mark is compulsory in XML for UTF-16

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=2519





------- Additional Comments From colin@colina.demon.co.uk  2005-11-14 12:16 -------
But what you are describing is an external parsed general entity, and the
requirement for a BOM with encoding of UTF-16 is still mandatory for such entities.
If a BOM is incovenient for a particular application, then you can serialize in
UTF-16BE or UTF-16LE, where the BOM is not compulsory (in fact it is forbidden
by the Unicode standard).

Received on Monday, 14 November 2005 12:17:05 UTC