- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 11:31:25 -0500
- To: Norbert Lindenberg <w3@norbertlindenberg.com>
- Cc: www-international <www-international@w3.org>
Norbert Lindenberg scripsit: > - "no longer ASCII-compatible": What does this mean? Usually when UTF-8 > is described as ASCII-compatible it means that all byte values that > look like ASCII actually are ASCII, and the BOM doesn't break this rule. I take it to mean that UTF-8-encoded text containing only characters from the ASCII repertoire will will be byte-for-byte the same as if it were ASCII-encoded text. This is true iff the UTF-8 data doesn't have a BOM. -- Being understandable rather than obscurantist poses certain risks, in that one's opinions are clear and therefore | John Cowan falsifiable in the light of new data, but it has the | cowan@ccil.org advantage of encouraging feedback from others. --James A. Matisoff
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