html5/spec Overview.html,1.3019,1.3020

• From: Ian Hickson via cvs-syncmail <cvsmail@w3.org>
• Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:00:37 +0000
• To: public-html-commits@w3.org
• Message-Id: <E1MnPDZ-0007Om-ER@lionel-hutz.w3.org>

Update of /sources/public/html5/spec
In directory hutz:/tmp/cvs-serv28407

Modified Files:
	Overview.html 
Log Message:
Add note about why we strip all BOMs. (whatwg r3853)

Index: Overview.html
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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
retrieving revision 1.3019
retrieving revision 1.3020
diff -u -d -r1.3019 -r1.3020
--- Overview.html	15 Sep 2009 01:39:25 -0000	1.3019
+++ Overview.html	15 Sep 2009 04:00:33 -0000	1.3020
@@ -55814,6 +55814,12 @@
   <p>One leading U+FEFF BYTE ORDER MARK character must be ignored if
   any are present.</p>
 
+  <p class="note">The requirement to strip a U+FEFF BYTE ORDER MARK
+  character regardless of whether that character was used to determine
+  the byte order is a <a href="#willful-violation">willful violation</a> of Unicode,
+  motivated by a desire to increase the resilience of user agents in
+  the face of na&iuml;ve transcoders.</p>
+
   <p>All U+0000 NULL characters in the input must be replaced by
   U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTERs. Any occurrences of such characters is
   a <a href="#parse-error">parse error</a>.</p>

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