- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 20:45:15 -0500
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, www-international@w3.org
Leif Halvard Silli scripsit: > > Note also that an XML document in UTF16-BE or UTF16-LE must have an > > XML declaration saying so. > > That requirement exists only when there is no external protocol: True. > Second: When there is an an external declaration which says "UTF-16", > then the requirement to include a BOM is relaxed. The parser > could e.g. default to UTF-16LE, as Unicode says. It does not default to the UTF-16LE encoding, but to the UTF-16 encoding with little-endian interpretation. These are two different things, though often confused. -- It was impossible to inveigle John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Into offering the slightest apology For his Phenomenology. --W. H. Auden, from "People" (1953)
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