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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:06:56 -0500
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From: "Bertilo Wennergren" <bertilow@bertilo.se.fm>
To: www-validator@w3.org
Subject: Re: XHTML validator doesn't completely support Unicode
Christian Smith:
> > > > 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.
> I think the problem is that you are using the wrong BOM. FEFF is the
> UTF-16 BOM whereas the UTF-8 BOM is EF BB BF.
Perhaps, but remember that "U+FEFF" is neutral. It represents the same
character without indicating if it's encoded as UTF-16 BE, UTF-16 LE,
UTF-8 or something else. It does not mean the byte FE followed by the
byte FF.
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