Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote on 2001-12-11 21:44 UTC: > My spec is at home but I think it's illegal in subsequent text. > (Blindly concatenating text for several files could of course > lead into such a situation.)
The BOM is illegal nowhere. The BOM is a perfectly normal Unicode character, namely the ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE. Browsers must display it exactly as such (that is: not display a strange character), wherever it appears. When you test this in your browser, it is also a good opportunity to test that the Plane 15 tagging characters are not displayed as well. Some recommendations for treating the BOM under Unix and in encoding converters are in http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
