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

[tomas]

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On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 01:33:21PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> 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.

Stephen noticed as well: this was just the missing piece in my head :)

(BTW: we might redefine the acronym to stand for "Bad Old Microsoft"?).

Regards
- -- tomás
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