- From: Francois Yergeau <yergeau@alis.com>
- Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 12:31:47 -0500
- To: ietf charsets <ietf-charsets@iana.org>
À 15:16 04/02/99 +0000, Misha Wolf a écrit : >François Yergeau a écrit : >> Let's face it, forbidding BOMs with the BE/LE tags means that they can't be >> used with XML, period. That's part of the compromise. > >s/, period./ 1.0./ Well, yes, in principle. But the outlook for later versions does not look promising to me. The BOM is currently instrumental in ensuring the self-describability of XML entities. Requiring an encoding declaration for UTF-16 entities would be an incompatible change, not acceptable. Just dropping the BOM requirement would mean losing the self-describability, which I consider far less palatable than not being allowed to use the BE/LE tags. But perhaps someone will find some magic so that XML can have its cake and eat it too. -- François
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