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Re: [SG16] Draft proposal: Clarify guidance for use of a BOM as a UTF-8 encoding signature

From: Tom Honermann <tom_at_[hidden]>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 18:32:39 -0400
On 10/14/20 8:25 AM, Alisdair Meredith wrote:
> A minor note for clarity.
>
> I would better understand the goal of this paper if there were an
> early sentence indicating
> whether the target audience of the advice is:
> � �1) document authors
> � �2) document processing tools
> � �3) both equally
>
> The advice seems geared strongly towards group (2), but we probably
> want to send a
> message to group (1) as well.

Thanks Alisdair.� I'll add more of an introduction.� The suggested
resolutions do address (1) as well, but one has to read until the end to
see that.� Good suggestion.

Tom.

>
> AlisdairM
>
>> On Oct 10, 2020, at 14:54, Tom Honermann via SG16
>> <sg16_at_[hidden] <mailto:sg16_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
>>
>> Attached is a draft proposal for the Unicode standard that intends to
>> clarify the current recommendation regarding use of a BOM in UTF-8
>> text. This is follow up to discussion on the Unicode mailing list
>> <https://corp.unicode.org/pipermail/unicode/2020-June/008713.html>
>> back in June.
>>
>> Feedback is welcome.� I plan to submit
>> <https://www.unicode.org/pending/docsubmit.html> this to the UTC in a
>> week or so pending review feedback.
>>
>> Tom.
>>
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