On Nov 14, 2013, at 7:33 AM, John Cowan wrote:
Per contra, ECMA-404 refers only to text(ual content). The BOM is
meaningful when transforming byte sequences into code point sequences,
but ECMA-404 deals in the latter only. So it is the furthest thing
from surprising that it makes no mention of BOMs, and has nothing to
say about their use outside text.
Exactly ECMA-404 only defines a textual content format. That was intentional.
Allen