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Re: BOMs

2013-11-18 11:38:32
Pete Cordell writes:

Given the history below, would it be sensible to accept BOMs for UTF-8
encoding, but not for UTF-16 and UTF-32?  In other words, are BOMs needed
and/or used in the wild for UTF-16 and UTF-32?

Maybe the text can say something like "SHOULD accept BOMs for UTF-8,
and MAY accept BOMs for UTF-16 and / or UTF-32"?

My sense is that you'll see more UTF-16 BOMs than anything else.
UTF-32 support seems to be waning (at least in the browsers), but
UTF-16 is in pretty widespread use.  John, do you think you can fool
google into counting BOMs for us?

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