Michael Kay wrote at 28 Sep 2001 09:25:29 +0100:
> When I need to check what the XML spec says, I usually turn to Bob
> DuCharme's book. Unfortunately this means I sometimes miss things that
> changed in the second edition.
It's always been possible to use  with UTF-8 in XML. It just
wasn't mentioned in the XML Recommendation (and still isn't all that
explicit).
ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993 has "always" supported use of ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK
SPACE () as an encoding signature for UTF-8 (where "always"
probably means "since UTF-8 was added to ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993 as
Amendment 2 some time before there was a Unicode 2.0").
The Unicode side of the Unicode==ISO/IEC 10646 equation was ambivalent
(at best) about  as an encoding signature for UTF-8 for quite
a long time after ISO/IEC 10646 blessed the idea, but the signature is
now listed as such in Section 13.6, Specials, of the Unicode Standard,
Version 3.0.
Regards,
Tony Graham
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