From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2005 - 15:43:21 CST
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
On Behalf
> Of Hans Aberg
> >> MS did invent BOM's for use with UTF-16
> >
> > This is factually incorrect. I seem to recall that the Byte Order
Mark was
> > invented by a gentleman from WordPerfect. I was present at the UTC
meeting
> > when the concept was introduced.
>
> To be more accurate, other posters mentioned its presence as a
consequcne of
> a MS text editor that always stamped BOM's, also in the case of
UTF-8.Check
> with those posters on details.
Excuse me?! Rick McGowan was responding to a statement that *you* made.
Why are you asking *him* to do the factual investigation to establish
the veracity of *your* statement?
Either take responsibility for your own statements, or don't bother
saying anything at all.
Peter Constable
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