[OpenID] UTF-8 processing

[John Panzer]

Mark Fowler wrote:

>On 11 Apr 2007, at 10:29, Tan, William wrote:
>
>  
>
>>May I suggest [section 4 of the spec is altered to] clarify it so  
>>that it reads:
>>
>>"The keys and values permit the full Unicode character set (UCS). When
>>the keys and values need to be converted to/from bytes, they MUST  
>>first
>>be represented in the UTF-8 [RFC3629] and then percent encoded  
>>[RFC3986]."
>>    
>>
>...
>
>Similarly, should we be also specifying that there either isn't a  
>BOM, or also stating one is mandatory?
>  
>
Suggest banning the BOM; if the spec is limited to UTF-8 encoding only, 
it would convey no information anyway AFACT.

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