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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/10/20 7:58 PM, Alisdair Meredith
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One concern I have, that might lead into rationale for the current
discouragement,
<div class="">is that I would hate to see a best practice that
pushes a BOM into ASCII files.</div>
<div class="">One of the nice properties of UTF-8 is that a valid
ASCII file (still very common) is</div>
<div class="">also a valid UTF-8 file. Changing best practice
would encourage updating those</div>
<div class="">files to be no longer ASCII.</div>
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<p>Thanks, Alisdair. I think that concern is implicitly addressed
by the suggested resolutions, but perhaps that can be made more
clear. One possibility would be to modify the "protocol designer"
guidelines to address the case where a protocol's default encoding
is ASCII based and to specify that a BOM is only required for
UTF-8 text that contains non-ASCII characters. Would that be
helpful?<br>
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<p>Tom.<br>
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<div class="">On Oct 10, 2020, at 14:54, Tom Honermann via
SG16 <<a href="mailto:sg16@lists.isocpp.org" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">sg16@lists.isocpp.org</a>>
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<p class="">Attached is a draft proposal for the Unicode
standard that intends to clarify the current
recommendation regarding use of a BOM in UTF-8 text.
This is follow up to <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://corp.unicode.org/pipermail/unicode/2020-June/008713.html"
class="">discussion on the Unicode mailing list</a>
back in June.</p>
<p class="">Feedback is welcome. I plan to <a
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href="https://www.unicode.org/pending/docsubmit.html"
class="">submit</a> this to the UTC in a week or so
pending review feedback.<br class="">
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<p class="">Tom.<br class="">
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