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Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8
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Mark A. Hershberger |
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Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8 |
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Wed, 21 May 2008 21:33:40 -0400 |
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Patrick Drechsler <address@hidden> writes:
> Patrick Drechsler <address@hidden> writes:
>> Finally having some spare time I read the specs from above and I have a
>> followup question concerning your last sentence:
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>> The BOM in my example file is not whitespace, it is xEF xBB xBF (it is
>> only displayed as whitespace by Emacs). According to the W3C site this
>> is valid:
You're right. I skimmed too fast and missed that important bit.
However, you'll note that the spec still does not leave room for a BOM.
I don't know enough about UTF-8 encoding and XML to know if this
matters.
Mark.
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- 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, Patrick Drechsler, 2008/05/17
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/05/17
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, Mark A. Hershberger, 2008/05/17
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, tomas, 2008/05/22
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, Miles Bader, 2008/05/22
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, Jason Rumney, 2008/05/22
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, tomas, 2008/05/27
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/05/22
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, tomas, 2008/05/23
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/05/23
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, tomas, 2008/05/27