From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org,
Patrick Drechsler <patrick@pdrechsler.de>,
tomas@tuxteam.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 10:22:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080527082253.GC4034@tomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buoy763ez5a.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>
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On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 01:33:21PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> tomas@tuxteam.de writes:
> >> > | [...] XML processors MUST be able to use this character to
> >> > | differentiate between UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoded documents.
> >> > `----
> >
> > ...and how are the XML processors supposed to achieve that? Is there a
> > second variant of BOM, indicating UTF-8?
>
> The encoding of BOM (incidentally, isn't this name for it obsolete?) is
> different in utf-8 and utf-16.
Stephen noticed as well: this was just the missing piece in my head :)
(BTW: we might redefine the acronym to stand for "Bad Old Microsoft"?).
Regards
- -- tomás
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-27 8:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-17 12:31 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8 Patrick Drechsler
2008-05-17 14:13 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-17 16:57 ` Patrick Drechsler
2008-05-17 20:38 ` Mark A. Hershberger
2008-05-21 22:20 ` Patrick Drechsler
2008-05-21 22:37 ` Patrick Drechsler
2008-05-22 1:33 ` Mark A. Hershberger
2008-05-22 14:43 ` Tom Tromey
2008-05-22 21:24 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-22 4:17 ` tomas
2008-05-22 4:33 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-22 8:28 ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-27 8:22 ` tomas [this message]
2008-05-22 17:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-23 9:05 ` tomas
2008-05-23 21:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-27 8:20 ` tomas
2008-05-18 2:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-18 2:30 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-18 3:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-18 4:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-18 8:56 ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-18 11:00 ` Patrick Drechsler
2008-05-19 3:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-19 14:32 ` Patrick Drechsler
2008-05-19 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-20 15:16 ` Patrick Drechsler
2008-05-18 15:19 ` joakim
2008-05-18 4:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-18 5:40 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-18 9:14 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-19 3:05 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-18 23:40 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-19 20:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-19 20:57 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-19 23:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-20 7:13 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-30 2:47 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-05-30 3:44 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-30 3:59 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-05-19 6:32 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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