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Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8
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tomas |
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Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8 |
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Fri, 23 May 2008 11:05:11 +0200 |
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On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 02:34:46AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
>
> > > > ,----[ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/#charencoding ]
> > > > | Entities encoded in UTF-16 MUST and entities encoded in UTF-8 MAY
> > > > | begin with the Byte Order Mark [...]
> > > > | [...] 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?
>
> Well, note that the BOM is three octets in UTF-8 but only two in
> UTF-16. Dead giveaway, there.
Duh. Thanks. That's what I was missing.
[...]
> > Am I completely whacko, or are they?
>
> Neither. You live in a relatively sane world, they live in a world
> which contains the sovereign nations of Japan and Microsoft.
Thanks for your kind words :-)
As for whether Emacs or nxml has the burden of skipping the BOM -- that
would correspond to whether nxml "within" Emacs is "seeing" a piece of
XML or a whole XML document, right?
Regards
- -- tomás
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- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, (continued)
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, tomas, 2008/05/22
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, Miles Bader, 2008/05/22
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, Jason Rumney, 2008/05/22
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, tomas, 2008/05/27
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/05/22
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8,
tomas <=
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/05/23
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, tomas, 2008/05/27
23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/05/17
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, Miles Bader, 2008/05/17
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/05/17
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/05/18
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, Jason Rumney, 2008/05/18
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, Patrick Drechsler, 2008/05/18
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/05/18
- Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8, Patrick Drechsler, 2008/05/19