pre-HTML5 and the BOM

Doug Ewell, Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:12:46 -0600:

> and people who want to create or modify UTF-8 files which will
> be consumed by a process that is intolerant of the signature
> should not use Notepad. That goes for HTML (pre-5) pages [snip]

HTML5-parsers MUST support UTF-8. They do not need to support any other
encoding. Pre-HTML5-parsers are not required to support the UTF-8
encoding - or any other particular encoding. But when they do support
the UTF-8 encoding, they are, however, not permitted to be 'intolerant'
of the BOM.

Thus there is nothing special with regard to the UTF-8 BOM and
pre-HTML5 HTML.

-- 
Leif H Silli