- From: MURATA Makoto <murata@hokkaido.email.ne.jp>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 20:56:08 +0900
- To: ietf-xml-mime@imc.org, "WWW-Tag" <www-tag@w3.org>
> > [5] http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~eb2m-mrt/charsetDetection.html > > I was quite surprised you didn't address the role of byte order marks. > BOMs are not limited to XML, neither do they depend on MIME or HTTP. Of > course, they can only be used for UTF encodings. Thanks for this comment. I think that the use of the BOM or Unicode signature is an example of charset sniffing based on byte patterns. However, I agree that my document was not clear enough. I revised it. Cheers, -- MURATA Makoto <murata@hokkaido.email.ne.jp>
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