- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:00:44 +0000
- To: Paul Grosso <paul@paulgrosso.name>
- Cc: core <public-xml-core-wg@w3.org>
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". ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam]
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