On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Guido Flohr wrote:
BTW, Windows editors also insert that BOM at the beginning when writing
XML files encoded in UTF-8. In other words: If you edit a UTF-8 XML
file with Windows Notepad, it will be corrupted. MSIE and Mozilla (!)
still treat it as well-formed XML but a standards compliant parser will
of course reject it.
Well, I am not fond of UTF-8 BOM at all, but it's not a violation
of the standard to prepend an XML file in UTF-8 with UTF-8 BOM
(see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-guessing).
Jungshik
