Re: For review: The byte-order mark (BOM) in HTML

On 2012/12/20 13:13, John Cowan wrote:
> Leif Halvard Silli scripsit:
>
>> It seems impossible to improve the text unless Richard clarifies what
>> use the text has in mind.
>
> I agree that it's wrongly worded, but I believe the intent is clear.
> Here's my revision:
>
> "The UTF-8 encoding without a BOM has the property that a document
> which contains only characters from the US-ASCII range is encoded
> byte-for-byte the same way as the same document encoded using the
> US-ASCII encoding.  Such a document can be processed either as UTF-8 or
> as US-ASCII.  Adding a BOM inserts additional non-ASCII bytes, so this
> is no longer true."
>
> I believe that statement is correct, complete, and useful.

Very much so indeed.

Regards,   Martin.

Received on Thursday, 20 December 2012 04:46:37 UTC