On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Darin McGrew wrote: Maybe I'm just being luddite here, but ... > Appendix F of the XML 1.0 Recommendation specifies ways to autodetect the > character encoding of XML documents, and this works fine for documents that > start with the four bytes 3C 3F 78 6D ("<?xm"). Maybe we need a similar > mechanism for valid HTML documents, documents that start with the four > bytes 3C 21 44 4F ("<!DO"). But there's no requirement on HTML documents to start with those four bytes: they can be preceded by whitespace or an SGML comment. Neither does HTML have a BOM to deal with multibyte character encodings, which I think is the key feature in XML that enables autodetection. > key ring /'kE 'ri[ng]/ n. device enabling simultaneous loss of multiple keys Why do you need a device for such a simple and routine task? -- Nick KewReceived on Saturday, 8 February 2003 06:29:18 UTC
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