Asmus Freytag <asmusf_at_ix.netcom.com> wrote:
|On 7/25/2012 2:45 PM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
|> . One might even argue that the BOM is useful here, too, since it
|> immediately signals that there is something wrong, and “” is an
|> encoding error signature, so to say.
|>
|
|+8
|
|A./
Well, i still see a bug in the Unicode Standard here.
Whereas for the multioctet UTFs there is «The BOM is not
considered part of the content of the text» (Conformance, 3.10,
D98, D101), i cannot find any such clarifying text for it's usage
as a signature. (Even though that kind of usage itself is promoted
at more and more places of the standard, which will remain a
mystery to me.)
Thus--if this terrible thing really has to be swallowed--the standard
should add «The signature is not..», too.
Thanks,
Steven
Received on Fri Jul 27 2012 - 04:29:16 CDT
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