Re: UTF-8 signature / BOM in CSS

Mark Davis scripsit:

> The string "UTF-16" names both an encoding form and an encoding scheme. Somewhat
> unfortunate, but it is that way for historical reasons. As an encoding form, it
> is independent of byte ordering. As an encoding scheme, it is defined such that
> an (optional) BOM determines the interpretation of the rest of the bytes, as
> either pairs of big-endian or little-endian bytes.

In the UTF-16 encoding scheme, does the presence of a BOM in the character
stream cause a U+FEFF to be present in the character stream?  XML assumes
it does not.

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