Re: UTF-8 BOM (Re: Charset declaration in HTML)

For those who haven't yet had enough of this debate yet, here's a link
to an informative blog (with some informative comments) from Michael
Kaplan:

"Every character has a story #4: U+feff (alternate title: UTF-8 is the
BOM, dude!)"
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2005/01/20/357028.aspx

What should be interesting is that this blog dates to January 2005,
seven and a half years ago, and yet includes the following:

"But every 4-6 months another huge thread on the Unicode List gets
started about how bad the BOM is for UTF-8 and how it breaks UNIX tools
that have been around and able to support UTF-8 without change for
decades and about how Microsoft is evil for shipping Notepad that causes
all of these problems and how neither the W3C nor Unicode would have
ever supported a UTF-8 BOM if Microsoft did not have Notepad doing it,
and so on, and so on."

And here we are again.

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Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA
http://www.ewellic.org | @DougEwell ­