Next message: Peter Sheerin: "RE: XHTML validator doesn't completely support Unicode"
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 07:38:34 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <01ab01c0d0a1$fa3281e0$536859d5@chello.se>
From: "Bertilo Wennergren" <bertilow@bertilo.se.fm>
To: <psheerin@cmp.com>, <www-validator@w3.org>
Subject: Re: XHTML validator doesn't completely support Unicode
Peter Sheerin:
> Take a look at http://www.petesguide.com/style/index.html, and then
> follow the icon link to the validator, and watch what it reports. The
> text file is encoded in UTF-8, and uses the DOS end of line
> conventions, but has the Unicode string "U+FEFF" as the first character.
Are you sure it's the end of line characters that give the problem?
I'd guess it's the BOM ("U+FEFF") that's the culprit. It's not very
common to use a BOM in UTF-8 files. Some even say it's not allowed
in UTF-8. It's certainly not necessary to use a BOM in UTF-8.
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