[SG16-Unicode] BOM in JSON (was: Re: SG16 meeting summary for July 31st, 2019)
Tony V E
tvaneerd at gmail.com
Mon Aug 19 16:03:29 CEST 2019
On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 1:16 AM Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at hsivonen.fi> wrote:
> For formats that, for legacy reasons, support multiple encodings, the
> benefit is that iäthe BOM unambiguously signals UTF-8. For UTF-8-only
> formats, the benefit of not treating the BOM as an error is to allow
> authoring with tools designed for the kind of formats where the BOM
> actually signals UTF-8 relative to other possibilities.
>
That makes sense to me.
--
Be seeing you,
Tony
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