Comment 7 for bug 189229
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| Christopher Yeleighton (giecrilj) wrote Re: Starting BOM in HTML is treated as text | #7 |
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The W3C validator says it is all right (white space is allowed before DOCTYPE). The character set, if it is declared, must be consistent with the BOM.
Both Firefox and Internet Explorer support this feature.
Any utility that aspires to the role of a word processor should examine the BOM of a text file first. Even Windows Notepad does that.