On Monday, March 14, 2005, 1:02:03 PM, Robin wrote:
RB> Chris Peto wrote: >> I am loading a document with UTF-8, but none of the programs that I try, >> i.e. XMLSpy, will accept it as UTF-8 unless the file starts with >> "0xEF0xBB0xBF" before the <!xml... RB> Any program that requires that in order to recognize UTF-8 is at RB> best antiquated not antiquated, see below. RB> (there are some rare cases where for backcompat you might perhaps RB> maybe want it, but generally not). Any program that pretends to know RB> something about XML and that requires the UTF-8 is quite simply RB> broken, and you can throw it away with the safe knowledge that it's RB> a useless piece of junk. Somehow I wouldn't be in the least RB> surprised to see XML Spy fall into that category... As a simple glance at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-guessing-no-ext-info will show. Indeed, UTF-8 files never used to have a BOM, and indeed tools would reject UTF-8 files with a BOM. Then Microsoft used a BOM to distinguish unicode text files from platform/'ansi'(sic) files in Notepad, and it was clarified that a BOM for UTF-8 files was legal and occasionally useful. Making it required is dumb. You mentioned that *none* of the programs you tried would read it? -- Chris Lilley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
