- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:11:35 +0900
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- CC: Albert Lunde <atlunde@panix.com>, www International <www-international@w3.org>
On 2012/12/20 7:48, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > Albert Lunde, Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:33:44 -0600: >> On 12/19/2012 3:24 PM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: >>> The "characters from the US-ASCII range are encoded byte-for-byte the >>> same way" even if you add the BOM. So this doesn’t sound like any >>> improvement. >> >> The individual characters are encoded the same, but the whole encoded >> byte sequence is different. I'd agree it's hard to say this clearly, >> especially for an audience that's new to these ideas. >> >> This is one of the things that breaks old tools expecting US-ASCII. > > Those tools are not broken by ÆØÅ or äöë too, right? Not necessarily. In a programming language, for example, there are places such as string constants where 8-bit data is okay (the compiler or interpreter may not really do much with it). But that's not the case at the start of a file. Regards, Martin.
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