Re: pre-HTML5 and the BOM

From: David Starner <prosfilaes_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:37:22 -0700

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Leif H Silli
<xn--mlform-iua_at_xn--mlform-iua.no> wrote:
> Another myth, e.g. in wikipedia, is that Unicode warns against the utf-8
> bom, see the footnote
> en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#cite_note-27

Wikipedia says "The Unicode standard recommends against the BOM for
UTF-8." and refers to page 30 of the Unicode Standard, version 6.0,
that says "Use of a BOM is neither required nor recommended for
UTF-8..." Calling it a myth seems bizarre.

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