25 Nov
2005
25 Nov
'05
5:48 a.m.
Martin Wille wrote: <snip>
Apparently, it is legal. However, it doesn't carry any useful information and not all software is able to deal with the BOM in UTF-8.
I believe it is intended to signal the text is UTF encoded, rather than, say, ISO-8859-15. And most of the software that can't deal with BOM's aren't too happy with UTF anyway. In Firefox choosing UTF-8 encoding explicitly makes it disappear, It should automatically figure it out, but obviously the meta tag is discouraging it. -- don't quote this