On 2017-09-19 20:35, Ted Lemon wrote:
On Sep 19, 2017, at 1:16 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@xxxxxx
<mailto:julian.reschke@xxxxxx>> wrote:
Can you please point to *something* that says it's wrong to use the
BOM in UTF-8 encoded documents of type text/plain?
It's pretty clearly wrong to download a document that's labeled
"text/plain;charset=utf8" and then store it in a way that will result in
it being treated as having a different encoding, or to display it
directly using a different encoding, as Explorer does. Since the BOM
is not required or even encouraged by the Unicode Consortium, failing to
get this right is clearly a bug.
I'm pretty sure that if the browser modified the downloaded file,
somebody else would claim that *that* would be a big. For instance, it
would affect signatures.
Best regards, Julian