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

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

Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |hsivonen@iki.fi
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #6 from Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> 2011-06-22 07:46:20 UTC ---
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: HTML is designed to be authorable in plain text editors in addition
to being authorable using HTML-specific tools. Requiring the UTF-8 BOM would be
impractical, because for backwards compatibility (with non-HTML cases) plain
text editors generally want to have the property that the file is all-ASCII if
the user has only entered Basic Latin characters and need to have the property
that special markers meant for script interpreters (e.g. #! or <?php) remain
intact at the start of the file without getting bytes prepended.

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Received on Wednesday, 22 June 2011 07:46:24 UTC