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Re: Some text that may be useful for the update of RFC 2376

2000-03-15 19:38:20
At 08:09 00/03/15 -0800, Tim Bray wrote:
At 10:39 PM 3/15/00 +0800, Rick Jelliffe wrote:

    3) In all cases, if the document starts with a BOM,
    the charset parameter must indicate which flavour
    of UTF-16 is being used. There is no default.
    Failure is an unrecoverable error, for general
    applications. Detection is not mandatory, but should
    be made so at some future date.
... 
The reason for 3) is that, as Murata-san's proposed
Japanese Profile of XML makes clear, there are Japanese flavours
of Unicode floating about. So just relying on the BOM is not
satisfactory. 

Please be careful. There are no multiple flavors of Unicode.
There are multiple flavors of conversion tables between
Japanese legacy encodings and Unicode.

So this does not affect UTF-16 at all.

Regards,   Martin.


#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, I18N Activity Lead, World Wide Web Consortium
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