- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:37:14 +0100
- To: "'Addison Phillips'" <addison@yahoo-inc.com>
- Cc: <public-i18n-core@w3.org>
> From: Addison Phillips [mailto:addison@yahoo-inc.com] > Sent: 25 July 2007 17:00 > Some applications, such as text editors, look for the BOM as > a signature > indicating the use of a Unicode encoding. These applications, such as > Windows Notepad, will automatically add a UTF-8 BOM to any > file you save > as UTF-8 so that they can detect it later. Browsers, however, > don't look for the BOM Actually they may do. See http://www.w3.org/International/tests/results/results-utf8-recognition which indicates that IE6 recognises the encoding from the UTF-8 signature. > and Web pages always need to declare the > character encoding > explicitly at the top of the file or in the HTTP header, making a BOM > unnecessary (and, as noted above, sometimes harmful). RI
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