13292 2011-07-19 00:44:15 +0000 Needs Clarification: What is an end-of-file marker in the context of Unicode? My guess is you could use one of the Byte Order Mark as noted in [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/site/dd374101]? In particular, "The Unicode value U+FFFF is illegal in plain te 2012-07-18 18:49:03 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#webvtt-cue-text-parsing-rules P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian mike silviapfeiffer1 contributor oldest_to_newest 51251 0 contributor 2011-07-19 00:44:15 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-video-element.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#webvtt-cue-text-parsing-rules Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#webvtt-cue-text-parsing-rules Comment: Needs Clarification: What is an end-of-file marker in the context of Unicode? My guess is you could use one of the Byte Order Mark as noted in [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/site/dd374101]? In particular, "The Unicode value U+FFFF is illegal in plain text files and cannot be passed between applications. It is reserved for the private use of an application." I have two concerns about this. First, since this codepoint is not actually a legal value, some languages might check (not that I know of any) and outright refuse to assign it to a variable of character type. Second, there is a chance the input already contains this value (0xef 0xbf 0xbf). Posted from: 78.224.146.118 User agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; fr) Presto/2.9.168 Version/11.50 51305 1 ian 2011-07-20 00:42:50 +0000 I don't understand. There is no end-of-file marker in Unicode. Do I refer to such a character in the spec? 51308 2 silviapfeiffer1 2011-07-20 02:33:21 +0000 (In reply to comment #1) > I don't understand. There is no end-of-file marker in Unicode. Do I refer to > such a character in the spec? Yes. Search for "end-of-file marker" on http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-video-element.html . It's not a character. It's just an indicator that the end of the file has been reached IIUC. 54265 3 ian 2011-08-05 23:13:14 +0000 I've tried to clarify this. 54266 4 contributor 2011-08-05 23:14:20 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r6376. Check-in comment: clarification http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6375&to=6376