- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:45:40 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Cc: public-html Group <public-html@w3.org>
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008, Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: > > For the BOMs in the table, the mask contains one or more 00 bytes, which > seems completely pointless: they will always return 00 with and, thus > meaning that it has absolutely no affect on the result, so why bother > having it in the table? They do have an effect. They set a minimum length for the source text. e.g. EF BB BF 00 with mask FF FF FF 00 can never match a three-byte input file. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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