Richard Wordingham <richard dot wordingham at ntlworld dot com> wrote:
> At present there is no certainty as to whether > an interchanged file in the UTF-16 encoding scheme that appears to > contain a BOM contains a BOM or starts with U+FFFE. The only > promise is that such a file contains an even number of data bytes. > Any such sequence is valid! Will the UTF-16 encoding scheme be > withdrawn? One might wonder, given how frequently we hear that unpaired surrogates also occur in the wild and need to be tolerated. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA http://ewellic.org | @DougEwell _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
