- From: Jim Correia <correia@barebones.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 09:45:47 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
- cc: Ian Graham <ian.graham@utoronto.ca>
On 9:29 AM 6/30/00 Ian Graham <igraham@smaug.java.utoronto.ca> wrote: > I think you mean UTF-16 (the two-byte encoding). UTF-8 doesn't use / > require a byte order mark, as all characters are encoded as a > stream of one, two, or more bytes, and the encoding rules uniquely > define the ordering of the bytes (a byte stream). Had he meant UTF-16, he probably would have said so. You cannot byte swap a UTF-8 file due to the nature of the encoding, but it is still desirable at times to include the UTF-8 BOM, EF BB BF, to indicate that the following stream of characters is indeed encoded as UTF-8 and not something else. <http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/#BOM> -- Jim Correia Bare Bones Software, Inc. correia@barebones.com <http://web.barebones.com>
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