I agree Gary.
Windows 2000 Notepad, however, does not agree and writes one.
Since Notepad in prior versions of Windows was in fact the defacto standard
for HTML editor (<g>), clearly it is a program to be reckoned with. People
should be aware of the fact that there are going to MANY files out there
that are UTF-8 and do have a BOM.
I do not believe that this will require it to be added to a standard, and
this is a non-standard usage, but life is about dealing with things as they
are (and this is how they are!).
Michael
> ----------
> From: Gary L. Wade[SMTP:garywade@desisoftsystems.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 9:08 AM
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: UTF-8 BOM Nonsense
>
> Please!
>
> After hundreds of e-mails on this topic, let it die!
>
> The BOM is only useful with UTF-16 or UCS-4 characters.
>
> There is no such thing as byte ordering when each character is a byte or
> a multibyte sequence with a well-documented ordering denoting how to
> interpret this! For further reference, turn to page 20 in the Unicode
> 3.0 book and let us get back to more important things, such as how to
> represent the price of tea in China! ;-)
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