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The BOM sniffing tables say the encoding is UTF-16BE or LE. Those are by definition BOMless, so the spec should say big-endian UTF-16 and little-endian UTF-16. In various places, the are checks if the encoding of something is UTF-16. Those checks should probably also check for UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE.
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r5301. Check-in comment: UTF-16 terminology. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5300&to=5301