Re: 32'nd bit & UTF-8

From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2005 - 14:47:04 CST

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    On 2005/01/20 17:34, Rick McGowan at rick@unicode.org wrote:

    >> It is hard to make UNIX processes becoming Unicode Conformant Processes
    >> when the BOM requirement is present.
    >
    > Hmmm... I don't recall that the Unicode Standard ever specifies that the
    > Byte Order Mark is *required* to be used anywhere for any purpose. Can you
    > point me to the place in the standard where this is stated?

    Several poster have cliamed that, most recently Arcane Jill. Check with
    them. There is supposed to be a difference between a UTF-8 encoding not
    requiring a BOM and a UTF-8 process requiring it.

      Hans Aberg



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