- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:46:05 +0900
- To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- CC: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, Albert Lunde <atlunde@panix.com>, www International <www-international@w3.org>
On 2012/12/20 13:13, John Cowan wrote: > 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. Very much so indeed. Regards, Martin.
Received on Thursday, 20 December 2012 04:46:37 UTC