- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:48:24 +0100
- To: Albert Lunde <atlunde@panix.com>
- Cc: www International <www-international@w3.org>
Albert Lunde, Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:33:44 -0600: > On 12/19/2012 3:24 PM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: >> The "characters from the US-ASCII range are encoded byte-for-byte the >> same way" even if you add the BOM. So this doesn’t sound like any >> improvement. > > The individual characters are encoded the same, but the whole encoded > byte sequence is different. I'd agree it's hard to say this clearly, > especially for an audience that's new to these ideas. > > This is one of the things that breaks old tools expecting US-ASCII. Those tools are not broken by ÆØÅ or äöë too, right? So, if the purpose of the text is to explain that the BOM breaks old tools that don’t expect the BOM, then it should say that rather than mixing ASCII into the argument. Btw, I think that some use "ASCII" as synonym for "pure/raw/plain text". And, seen from that angle, then we are exactly in the problem you describe, I think, since the BOM is some kind of "non-text signature" in the beginning of the text. -- leif halvard silli
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