Re:Google HTML/CSS style guide suggests omitting head and bo...
by bediger4000 on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @12:31PM
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They did get this correct:
> Use UTF-8 (no BOM).
I was mystified the first time I read about "byte order mark" and I'm still confused. I mean, I know that if you want to waste space on 16-bit characters, it might make some very small amount of sense to have a byte-order mark, but for crying out loud, just standardize that order and live with it. We don't need more parts of text file that are interpretable, and cause both usability problems and security problems.
> Use UTF-8 (no BOM).
I was mystified the first time I read about "byte order mark" and I'm still confused. I mean, I know that if you want to waste space on 16-bit characters, it might make some very small amount of sense to have a byte-order mark, but for crying out loud, just standardize that order and live with it. We don't need more parts of text file that are interpretable, and cause both usability problems and security problems.