RE: UTF-16 Encoding Scheme and U+FFFE

From: Peter Constable <petercon_at_microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 21:28:05 +0000

There's never been anything preventing a file from containing and beginning with U+FFFE. It's just not a very useful thing to do, hence not very likely.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-bounces_at_unicode.org] On Behalf Of Richard Wordingham
Sent: June 3, 2014 11:53 AM
To: unicode_at_unicode.org
Subject: UTF-16 Encoding Scheme and U+FFFE

How do I read definition D98 in TUS Version 6.3.0 Chapter 3 to prohibit a file in the UTF-16 encoding scheme from starting with U+FFFE? Or is
U+FFFE actually allowed to start such a file?

Is an implementation that deduces the encoding scheme of a plain text file from a leading BOM to be characterised as reckless?

Richard.
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