Re: Minutes for XML Core WG telcon of 2014 January 8

Paul Grosso writes:

> Henry indicates the IETF review has shown considerable
> interest in adding something along the following lines:
>
>  Going forward, XML producers SHOULD use UTF-8 exclusively,
>  without any BOM. For compatibility with existing
>  implementations, the following processing rules are given.
>
> What do we think about that?
>
> John is concerned that this is put on *producers* rather
> than transmitters.  He says it's perfectly reasonable for
> producers to produce other encodings locally.  For example,
> there are many pages produced in Windows encodings.
>
> Paul wonders exactly how to parse Henry's statement above.
> Is it saying "if you use UTF-8, you SHOULDN'T have a BOM"
> or "you SHOULD use UTF-8 and it SHOULDN'T have a BOM."

The latter.  But, John, note that (and this could/should be made
clearer) "XML producers" _means_ "XML producers of entities for
delivery by MIME-compliant means".

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