RE: XML declarations & UTF-16

[Martin Duerst <duerst@xxxxxx>]

At 20:26 02/05/30 -0700, Larry Masinter - LMM@xxxxxxx wrote:

> I've proposed the following updates to section 5.1
> to note the issue with UTF-16:
>
> Add, to the end of paragraph 2 ("XML performs ...")
>
>  External parsed entities encoded in UTF-16 are required to
>  begin with a Byte Order Mark ([8] section 4.3.3).

Okay.


> Add, at the end of the last paragraph ("This document requires...")
> the sentence
>     If the UTF-16 encoding is allowed, the XML requirement that
>     UTF-16 encoded charsets be noted with an initial byte order mark
>     (BOM) should be noted.

Please change (editorial) to:

If the UTF-16 encoding is allowed, XML requires that
UTF-16 encoded external entities start with a byte order mark
(BOM).


Regards,   Martin.