- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:26:43 +0100
- To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, www-international@w3.org
John Cowan, Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:27:27 -0500: > http://www.w3.org/mid/20121121212726.GA13361@mercury.ccil.org > > Per Unicode, [ … ] If a UTF-16LE document begins FF FE, that means the > first character is U+FEFF, ZERO BASED NON-BREAKING SPACE; likewise if > a UTF-16BE document begins FE FF. Note that the draft in question says: [1] ]] This is because the Unicode Standard says you should not use a BOM when the text is labeled as one of those encodings. [[ If the above is an accurate reflection of what Unicode says, then it doesn’t sound as if it is considered as very safe to let a leading FF FE/FE FF for anything but the BOM - not even when using UTF-16LE/UTF-16BE. [1] http://www.w3.org/International/questions/new/qa-byte-order-mark-new.en.php#bomhow -- leif halvard silli
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