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Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 06:19:08 +0300

> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 11:30:05 +0900
> Cc: address@hidden, Patrick Drechsler <address@hidden>
> 
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
> >  > is the attached xml file (simple.xml) really invalid (as indicated by
> >  > nxhtml) or is this a bug in nxhtml?
> >
> > Neither.  Emacs is (arguably) reading it incorrectly.
> 
> By "arguably" I presume you're referring to the "Microsoft does <random
> stupid thing>, therefore everybody who doesn't do <random stupid thing>
> is thing>incorrect" tactic.

I'm not sure you are barking the right tree.  AFAIK, Microsoft doesn't
use UTF-8 at all, they use UTF-16 (where a BOM is generally
necessary).




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