On 2017-09-18 22:15, Ted Lemon wrote:
On Sep 18, 2017, at 4:03 PM, Adam Roach <adam@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:adam@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Do we? Can you cite something that makes this claim under color of
consensus?
See Page 36, the paragraph after the table:
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/ch02.pdf
<http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/ch02.pdf#page=30>:
The endian order entry for UTF-8 in Table 2-4 is marked N/A because UTF-8 code units
are 8 bits in size, and the usual machine issues of endian order for larger code units do not
apply. The serialized order of the bytes must not depart from the order defined by the UTF-
8 encoding form. Use of a BOM is neither required nor recommended for UTF-8, but may
be encountered in contexts where UTF-8 data is converted from other encoding forms that
use a BOM or where the BOM is used as a UTF-8 signature. See the “Byte Order Mark”
subsection in Section 16.8, Specials, for more information.
Is this the paragraph you're referring to?
Best regards, Julian