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Bug 10149 - [polyglot] i18n comment 1 : UTF-16 BOM is required
Summary: [polyglot] i18n comment 1 : UTF-16 BOM is required
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML/XHTML Compat. Authoring Guide (ed: Eliot Graff) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eliot Graff
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html-pol...
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Reported: 2010-07-13 19:45 UTC by Richard Ishida
Modified: 2010-10-05 13:07 UTC (History)
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Description Richard Ishida 2010-07-13 19:45:53 UTC 
Comment from the i18n review of:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html-polyglot-20100624/

Comment 1
At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/1007-polyglot/
Editorial/substantive: S
Tracked by: RI

Location in reviewed document:
3. Character Encoding [http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html-polyglot-20100624/#character-encoding]

Comment: 
"When polyglot markup uses UTF-16, it should include the BOM indicating UTF-16LE or UTF-16BE."

 
The RFC use of the word 'should' is incorrect. The XML spec requires the BOM for UTF-16 documents. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charencoding
Comment 1 Eliot Graff 2010-08-13 20:14:14 UTC 
Changed should to must and republished 8/13.