- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 14:58:01 +0100
- To: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- Cc: Darin McGrew <mcgrew@stanfordalumni.org>, www-validator@w3.org
* Nick Kew wrote: >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. The BOM is allowed (but not required) in HTML, see HTML 4.01/5.2.1.
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