On Nov 14, 2013, at 7:33 AM, John Cowan wrote: > > Per contra, ECMA-404 refers only to text(ual content). The BOM is > meaningful when transforming byte sequences into code point sequences, > but ECMA-404 deals in the latter only. So it is the furthest thing > from surprising that it makes no mention of BOMs, and has nothing to > say about their use outside text. Exactly ECMA-404 only defines a textual content format. That was intentional. Allen