In message "Re: UTF-16, the BOM, and media types",
Martin J. Duerst wrote...
So if something comes in with a label of UTF-16BE, then an XML
processor can either say 'sorry, don't know UTF-16BE', or it
can know it and interpret it accordingly. Every XML processor
has to understand UTF-16, but supporting UTF-16LE is not
required. If you don't like UTF-16LE for XML, just don't
support it.
I was assuming that people trying to mandate the support
of UTF-16LE/BE. It appears that my assumption is wrong.
Martin, would you be happy if some processors do not support
UTF-16LE/BE XML entities (to be precise, document entities,
external parameter entities, external parsed entities, and
external DTD subsets) containing the correct encoding
declaration?
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