- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 15:35:06 +0100
- To: www-validator@w3.org
- Cc: www-international@w3.org
Hello www-validator, I was surprised to see, on the W3C DTD validator, the following advice: The Unicode Byte-Order Mark (BOM) in UTF-8 encoded files is known to cause problems for some text editors and older browsers. You may want to consider avoiding its use until it is better supported. This is odd because the use of a BOM with UTF-8 files is a) standards compliant, to Unicode and to XML and to CSS b) common practice c) allows text editors to auto-detect the encoding of a plain text document. I believe therefore that the advice is incorrect and indeed potentially damaging. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Interaction Domain Leader Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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