Waqas Hussain wrote: > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Jonathan Dickinson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter >>> Saint-Andre >>> Sent: 07 November 2008 01:51 AM >>> To: Jabber/XMPP software development list >>> Subject: Re: [jdev] BOM >>> >>> Jonathan Dickinson wrote: >>>> Much obliged. As a case of interopability, maybe something like: >>>> entities MUST NOT send byte order marks, however, they MUST tolerate >>>> them. >>> I'm not sure exactly what "tolerate" means. >> Receiving entities shouldn't fall over when they get a BOM at the start of >> the stream: like the clients that I used to test my server did. >> >> -- Jonathan > > Considering that no servers send out BOMs, and pretty much no clients > do either, I don't really see much point in requiring all XMPP > software to handle BOMs.
Having done a bit more research, my position is now this: given that XMPP is UTF-8 and that UTF-8 always has the same byte order, why would we ever need to include or support a byte order mark in XMPP? Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list FAQ: http://www.jabber.org/discussion-lists/jdev-faq Forum: http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=20 Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________
