> > The standard states quite explicitly that a BOM in UTF-8 is > unnecessary[1, 2] and discouraged[2].
I've been looking for official REST documentation on this matter (that I still can't find), I didn't search the Unicode documentation, where it does say "Where UTF-8 is used* transparently* in 8-bit environments, the use of a BOM will interfere with any protocol or file format that expects specific ASCII characters at the beginning" I'm guessing this applies to REST bodies, so I'm getting rid of the BOM. I'm using a stream writer for the XML, so there'll be some options somewhere to omit it. *Greg*
