RE: reviewing draft-weber-iri-guidelines-00

> 
> One additional comment.  Section 4, bullet 1.  I propose to mention that the
> BOM character, if present in the trailing position, should be removed when
> pre-precessing.  This is also in accordance with Unicode Standard.
> 

No, that would probably be a bad thing to do. The trailing position in an IRI could be a piece of valid data:

   http://example.com/myCharPicker?char=


Outside its role as an announcer---at the start of a text file---BOM is not that useful [it's job of "zero width non-breaking space" is better done by the WORD JOINER character], but it is still a valid code point that might be exchanged. There is no reason to require its removal. 

Cf. http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#bom6


Addison

Received on Saturday, 9 July 2011 19:19:09 UTC