- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:13:26 -0500
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: Albert Lunde <atlunde@panix.com>, www International <www-international@w3.org>
Leif Halvard Silli scripsit: > It seems impossible to improve the text unless Richard clarifies what > use the text has in mind. I agree that it's wrongly worded, but I believe the intent is clear. Here's my revision: "The UTF-8 encoding without a BOM has the property that a document which contains only characters from the US-ASCII range is encoded byte-for-byte the same way as the same document encoded using the US-ASCII encoding. Such a document can be processed either as UTF-8 or as US-ASCII. Adding a BOM inserts additional non-ASCII bytes, so this is no longer true." I believe that statement is correct, complete, and useful. -- You annoy me, Rattray! You disgust me! John Cowan You irritate me unspeakably! Thank Heaven, cowan@ccil.org I am a man of equable temper, or I should http://www.ccil.org/~cowan scarcely be able to contain myself before your mocking visage. --Stalky imitating Macrea
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