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

> >
> > When found in the leading position, it's no different from any other non-ASCII
> character. And it shouldn't be treated any differently. The BOM won't appear in
> address bars unless someone purposely inserts it. IRIs don't appear at the start
> of any common file types that I'm aware of, so BOM won't naturally occur like
> this at the start of an IRI unless someone has put it there.
> However, if somebody did put it at the beginning of the IRI?..  I think a way to
> act on such hypothetical possibility should be provided.
> 

Hypothetically, one could put U+202E (right-to-left override) first. Or U+2603 (snowman) first. BOM is about as harmful as the latter and less harmful than the former.

Addison

Received on Sunday, 10 July 2011 05:04:05 UTC