- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 09:59:07 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Ernest Cline <ernestcline@mindspring.com>
- Cc: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>, WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Ernest Cline wrote: > > So is CESU-8 is to be implicitly prohibited from using a BOM, > unless identified as such by out-of-band info, since that would > cause it to be treated as UTF-8? (I could live with that as > CESU-8 isn't really intended for transmission of data.) The CESU-8 specification makes it quite clear that the only way a UA should be able to end up using it is if it has been very explicitly given as the encoding. A BOM is not, IMHO, explicit. -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL U+1047E /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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