- From: Harald Alvestrand <Harald.Alvestrand@maxware.no>
- Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 09:10:10 +0200
- To: Dan Kegel <dank@alumni.caltech.edu>, Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@INNOSOFT.COM>, "Martin J. Duerst" <duerst@w3.org>
- Cc: MURATA Makoto <murata@apsdc.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp>, ietf-charsets@ISI.EDU, murata@fxis.fujixerox.co.jp, Tatsuo_Kobayashi@justsystem.co.jp
At 19:12 24.05.98 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
>At 11:35 PM 5/24/98 +0200, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
>
>True, but it's a little wishy-washy, in that it doesn't try to
>lay down the law about how the little-endian holdouts
>must behave in order to get along peacefully with the rest of us.
>You need to tell them they have to use a BOM if they're going to
>talk funny.
Wishy-washy? I must be losing my edge :-)
I think it's wrong to say anything about how people who insist on
doing the Wrong Thing should behave; I was trying to craft language
that said what the Right Thing is, and hint at how to tackle the
Wrong Thing.
What about adding:
"Note: There is no way to 100% reliably detect little-endian data that does
not use the BOM."
Just telling people who try to deal with the mess that they are getting
ever deeper into a mess.....
Harald A
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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, Maxware, Norway
Harald.Alvestrand@maxware.no
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