[Bug 12950] Require Byte-Order Mark (BOM) in UTF-8 encoded pages

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12950

--- Comment #5 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> 2011-06-16 01:24:07 UTC ---
Example when the BOM would be useful:  http://railssnowman.info

]] This bug exists in IE5, IE6, IE7, and IE8. If the user switches the
browser's encoding to Latin-1 (to understand why a user would decide to do
something seemingly so crazy, check out this google search), any form
submission will be sent in Latin-1.[[

The thing is that when the BOM is used, the Internet Explorer does not allow
the user to change the encoding. And so this bug would not be visible, and the
snowman workaround would thus not be necessary.

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Received on Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:24:09 UTC