- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 10:03:04 -0800 (PST)
- To: ietf charsets <ietf-charsets@iana.org>
Appendix F of the XML specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210#sec-guessing) makes it clear that BOM isn't actually necessary for auto-guessing of charset between UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE, because of the differing encodings of "<" and "?" in the initial "<?". I might suggest that the XML recommendation be amended to disallow charsets that cannot be recognized using the mechanisms included in Appendix F; however, I'm not sure there are any already registered. Larry
Received on Thursday, 4 February 1999 13:05:14 UTC