Comment by 3036e4
5 months ago
Also some XML parsers I used choked on UTF-8 BOMs. Not sure if valid XML is allowed to have anything other than clean ASCII in the first few characters before declaring what the encoding is?
5 months ago
Also some XML parsers I used choked on UTF-8 BOMs. Not sure if valid XML is allowed to have anything other than clean ASCII in the first few characters before declaring what the encoding is?
My search also turned this up:
https://x.com/jbogard/status/1111328911609217025
If that link doesn't work, then try:
https://xcancel.com/jbogard/status/1111328911609217025
Source (which will explain the joke for anyone who didn't get it immediately):
https://www.jimmybogard.com/the-curious-case-of-the-json-bom...
Oh wow. Doing a quick search I found https://www.xml.com/axml/notes/BOM.html ... which is marked © 1998.
Not ALL of the 20th-century Internet has bit-rotted and fallen apart yet. (Just most of it).