- From: MURATA Makoto <murata@apsdc.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp>
- Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 10:52:26 +0900
- To: ietf charsets <ietf-charsets@iana.org>
Larry Masinter wrote: > 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 "<?". Actually, external DTD subsets, external parsed entities, and external parameter entites do not have to begin with "<". In particular, external parsed entities can begin with any character. To allow autodetection, XML 1.0 requires that external parsed entities must begin either the BOM or text declarations, if not in UTF-8. Makoto Fuji Xerox Information Systems Tel: +81-44-812-7230 Fax: +81-44-812-7231 E-mail: murata@apsdc.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp
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