Re: [xml] HTMLparser: UTF-8 byte order mark

[Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi gmx net>]

* Daniel Veillard wrote:
>  Hum, I don't know how it should be processed in theory ! In XML
> the BOM is fine at the beginning of a document entity in UTF-8 or UTF-16
> but will usually mess things up in different encodings. For HTML I don't
> know what the theory suggests. For compatibility I guess the character
> should be dropped if detected.

HTML character encoding detection is a terrible mess and last time I
checked libxml2 was not a compliant implementation in that it considered
<meta> elements encoding switches and won't re-parse content preceding
the <meta> element (much unlike browsers). Browsers typically treat the
BOM here as they would do for XML documents.
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