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Re: 8bit ascii encoding
David Carlisle wrote at 27 Aug 2002 09:34:00 +0100:
> I think that the utf-8 bom was a later addition to utf8 so as to
> legalise the output of certain programs originating in Seatle wasn't it?
> But yes, you are right.
That depends on which standard you read. The UTF-8 BOM was listed
alongside the UTF-16/UCS-2 BOM in an annex to ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993
long before the UTF-8 BOM got its first Unicode mention (in the
Unicode 3.0 book, I believe).
Regards,
Tony Graham
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