Tex Texin <tex at i18nguy dot com> wrote: > I didn't think the XML standard allowed for utf-8 files to have a BOM. > The standard is quite clear about requiring 0xFEFF for utf-16. > I would have thought a proper parser would reject a non-utf-16 file > beginning with something other than "<".
The standard explicitly allows UCS-4, UTF-16, and UTF-8 files to begin with a BOM. See Appendix F.1, "Detection Without External Encoding Information": http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-guessing -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
