| ▲ | 3036e4 4 days 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? | ||
| ▲ | rmunn 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
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... | ||
| ▲ | rmunn 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
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). | ||