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4.3.1 The script element http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/scripting-1.html#the-script-element Step 15, down around 1. The list of BOM sequences doesn't include the UTF-32 BOMs. While UTF-32 is explicitly unsupported by HTML5, it might be a good idea to list the BOM's as unsupported?
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: The spec already says "Authors should not use UTF-32, as the encoding detection algorithms described in this specification intentionally do not distinguish it from UTF-16."