- From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 19:40:54 -0800
- To: MURATA Makoto <murata@apsdc.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp>, ietf-charsets@iana.org
At 11:39 AM 2/2/99 +0900, MURATA Makoto wrote: >I have a question. I know that many people would like to make the >BOM optional. But what is the reason for making it optional? >If we can say that the BOM is mandatory and is merely an artifact for >encoding, this RFC becomes much simpler. But it's pretty clear that not everyone would follow it because some UTF-16 editing software does BOMs, other doesn't. So instead of making it mandatory and having many creators ignore it, it seems better to deal with the reality of today. I don't think that the wording is all that confusing. --Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium
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