Re: XHTML validator doesn't completely support Unicode

Peter Sheerin:

> Take a look at http://www.petesguide.com/style/index.html, and then
> follow the icon link to the validator, and watch what it reports. The
> text file is encoded in UTF-8, and uses the DOS end of line
> conventions, but has the Unicode string "U+FEFF" as the first character.

Are you sure it's the end of line characters that give the problem?

I'd guess it's the BOM ("U+FEFF") that's the culprit. It's not very
common to use a BOM in UTF-8 files. Some even say it's not allowed
in UTF-8. It's certainly not necessary to use a BOM in UTF-8.

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Received on Sunday, 29 April 2001 21:18:05 UTC