- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:47:21 +0100
- To: <public-i18n-core@w3.org>
Chaps, I propose to add the following paragraph to http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-utf8-bom in the section By the Way: "Applications that look at the text to work out the character encoding can tell straight away that the text is encoded in UTF-8 if they find a BOM at the beginning. This can save time if the only non-ASCII characters occur a long way down the file (such as a copyright symbol in text at the very end). Web pages, however, ought to declare the character encoding explicitly at the top of the file or in the HTTP header, so a BOM should not be necessary." Unless I hear any objections, I will make the change, unannounced, in a couple of days time. Cheers, RI ============ Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ http://www.w3.org/International/ http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/
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