[Bug 15359] New: Make BOM trump HTTP

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15359

           Summary: Make BOM trump HTTP
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: annevk@opera.com
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: hsivonen@iki.fi, mike@w3.org,
                    public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org, adrianba@microsoft.com,
                    Ms2ger@gmail.com, VYV03354@nifty.ne.jp,
                    travil@microsoft.com


In Trident and WebKit the octet sequences FF FE, FE FF, and EF, BB, BF at the
start of a resource are considered more important than anything else when it
comes to determining the encoding of the resource.

http://kb.dsqq.cn/ is an example of where this creates a problem for
non-WebKit/Trident implementations.

I think throughout the platform (HTML, XHR, File API, CSS) we should implement
the WebKit/Trident strategy with respect to the BOM.

(I created a new bug rather than reopening bug 12897 as that bug has a lot of
noise.)

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Received on Thursday, 29 December 2011 14:20:49 UTC