On 9/18/17 15:39, Ted Lemon wrote:
The paragraph I quoted simply says that UTF-8 BOM isn't useful or
recommended. So it's agreeing with Carsten, and I guess with me.
If we disagree with the consortium on this, that's okay, but we ought
to have a really good reason for disagreeing.
I think "putting it in is demonstrably necessary for proper rendering in
a lot of real-world applications" is a Really Good Reason.
So far, in all the arguments *against* BOMs, I have not yet seen a
concrete "here is what will break with BOMs (but which works fine
without them)" argument. I understand -- and, to some degree,
sympathize with -- the arguments that putting BOMs in UTF-8 documents is
distasteful in principle. But until someone actually posts a
step-by-step set of "steps to reproduce the problem," these concerns
remain theoretical [1].
In this case, I would give real problems significantly more weight when
balanced against imagined ones.
/a
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[1] Based on your query about clipboard behavior, I have no doubt that
you're trying -- and, if this is your best avenue of investigation,
almost certainly failing -- to come up with such an example. In my
experience, OSes tend to handle these kinds of things quite gracefully.