eliot: Edited section 3 per requests in bug 12062, comment 9;

eliot: Edited section 3 per requests in bug 12062, comment 9;

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/html-xhtml-author-guide/html-xhtml-authoring-guide.html?r1=1.64&r2=1.65&f=h

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@@ -238,8 +238,7 @@
 <!--OddPage--><h2><span class="secno">3. </span>Specifying a Document's Character Encoding</h2>
  <p>
   <a class="internalDFN" href="#dfn-polyglot-markup" title="polyglot markup">Polyglot markup</a> uses either UTF-8 or UTF-16. UTF-8 is preferred.
-  When <a class="internalDFN" href="#dfn-polyglot-markup">polyglot markup</a> uses UTF-16, it <em title="must" class="rfc2119">must</em> include a BOM indicating 
-  little-endian UTF-16 or big-endian UTF-16, per XML, <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charencoding">Character Encoding in Entities</a>. [<cite><a href="#bib-XML10" rel="biblioentry" class="bibref">XML10</a></cite>] 
+  When <a class="internalDFN" href="#dfn-polyglot-markup">polyglot markup</a> uses UTF-16, it <em title="must" class="rfc2119">must</em> include the BOM, per <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charencoding">Character Encoding in Entities</a>. [<cite><a href="#bib-XML10" rel="biblioentry" class="bibref">XML10</a></cite>] 
  </p>
  <p>
   <a class="internalDFN" href="#dfn-polyglot-markup" title="polyglot markup">Polyglot markup</a> declares character encoding in the following ways, which may be used separately or in combination 
@@ -247,7 +246,7 @@
   </p><ul>
    <li>Within the document</li>
     <ul>
-     <li>By using the BOM of the specific encoding.</li>
+     <li>By using the BOM.</li>
      <li>By relying on UTF-8 as the encoding default of XML, used in combination with the HTML <code>&lt;meta charset="UTF-8"/&gt;</code> element.</li>
     </ul>
    <li>In the HTTP header of the response [<cite><a href="#bib-HTTP11" rel="biblioentry" class="bibref">HTTP11</a></cite>], as in the following:
@@ -999,6 +998,7 @@
 
 
 
+
 <!-- Appendix -->
 <div id="acknowledgements" class="appendix section">
 <h2><span class="secno">A. </span>Acknowledgements</h2>

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