Re: Requesting a revision of RFC3023

Christoph Schneegans <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:45:27 GMT

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MURATA Makoto wrote:

> At present, different technologies have introduced different ad-hoc
> solutions  [5].
>
> [5] http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~eb2m-mrt/charsetDetection.html

I was quite surprised you didn't address the role of byte order marks.
BOMs are not limited to XML, neither do they depend on MIME or HTTP. Of
course, they can only be used for UTF encodings.

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