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


From: Miles Bader
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 13:33:21 +0900

address@hidden writes:
>> > |        [...]  XML processors MUST be able to use this character to
>> > | differentiate between UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoded documents.
>> > `----
>
> ...and how are the XML processors supposed to achieve that? Is there a
> second variant of BOM, indicating UTF-8?

The encoding of BOM (incidentally, isn't this name for it obsolete?) is
different in utf-8 and utf-16.

-Miles

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