On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Michael Everson wrote: > X browsers, and the keepers of that home page should delete the first > character before the HTML begins right away. I am cc:ing the keepers
I agree that they should. Incidentally, it just occurred to me that ftp/ssh clients may offer an user-configurable option for the automatic removal of 'UTF-8 BOM' at the beginning of a text file in UTF-8 when moving files from Windows to non-Windows platforms (Unix/Unix-like OS and MacOS). The same is true of Kermit (Frank, are you here?). All those tools can be configured to translate between three (and nowadays even more?) EOL conventions, CF/LF/CR,LF for text files. Then, the automatic removal(and addition if that's regarded as necessary) of UTF-8 BOM at platform boundaries would be as useful. As for web servers, a configurable option can be added to remove UTF-8 BOM at the beginning of text/* files(they serve). For instance, I think it's not hard to write a simple module for Apache(used at Unicode.org web site) to do that. With these additional guards, UTF-8 BOM added by some editors without users' notice would be made less of problem. Jungshik
