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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/14/2020 6:35 AM, Tom Honermann
via Unicode wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:84ff62e5-7157-1c92-6995-db6f68e95e23@honermann.net">Your
interpretation of that phrase does not match my interpretation nor
that of anyone else that I've discussed this with. If the intent
had been to be neutral, then "Use of a BOM is not required for
UTF-8" would have sufficed. If the intent had been to be
explicitly neutral, then something like "Use of a BOM in UTF-8 is
not required and this standard makes no recommendations regarding
its use or non-use"</blockquote>
<p><font face="Candara">That's fine as far as it goes.</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">Your interpretation of that phrase doesn't
match my interpretation nor that or anyone else that I've
discussed this with. (Flippant, but perfectly true).</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">A./<br>
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