- From: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:41:46 +0200
- To: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>, iana@iana.org
- Cc: Mark Davis <mark@macchiato.com>, ietf-charsets@iana.org
--On fredag, april 12, 2002 15:28:08 +0900 Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
wrote:
>>> The IETF registration imposes one additional constraint: if there is no
>>> initial BOM then the byte-orientation must be big-endian. That is, in
>>> any stream that does not begin with the (hex) byte sequence <00 00 FE
>>> FF> all of the bytes are interpreted as big-endian.
note: in this paragraph, <00 00 FE FF> needs to be replaced by <FF FE 00
00> - the example is big-endian.
Apart from that - PLEASE get it done; this has been waiting far too long.
Harald
Received on Friday, 12 April 2002 03:42:21 UTC