- From: Martin J. Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 16:15:44 +0900
- To: "A. Vine" <avine@eng.sun.com>, www-international@w3c.org
At 00/05/16 12:06 -0700, A. Vine wrote: >In a related question on WML: > > From the spec it looks like if the document charset is not explicitly > specified, >then the charset is assumed to be UTF-8 or UTF-16. I have 2 questions in >relation to what is being used now and expected by processing software: > >1. Does this them imply that a BOM should be at the beginning of the >transmission, even in UTF-8? WML is XML, and this means that a BOM is not needed at the start of UTF-8. Putting a BOM at the beginnig of an XML UTF-8 file is a bad idea, because a lot of existing software cannot handle it. >2. Does the assumption that untagged text data is in Unicode actually >work? In >other words, are folks actually tagging everything else? If they are not tagged, and the phones then don't display the pages, they will learn how to tag. Regards, Martin.
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