- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:53:25 -0500
- To: Dieter Köhler <d.k@philo.de>
- Cc: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
Dieter K?hler scripsit:
> RFC 2781, sec. 4.3 says that a text without a byte order mark and
> labelled as UTF-16 defaults to big-endian. In the light of this
> passage the requirement of the XML spec, sec. 4.3.3 that entities
> encoded in UTF-16 MUST begin with a byte order mark seem to me
> unnecessarily harsh. Why not adopt the rule from RFC 2781 that
> entities encoded in UTF-16 without a byte order mark default to
> big-endian?
(Not speaking for the Core WG here.)
That would constitute a change in what is and what is not well formed,
and we don't intentionally make changes to XML 1.0 that affect
well-formedness.
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Received on Thursday, 28 December 2006 20:53:37 UTC