Re: [Chicken-users] SSAX, utf8 and the byte order mark

[John Cowan]

Charles Breathe scripsit:

> In the process of trying to write a script in Chicken I attempted
> to use the SSAX XML->SXML function with a stream that begins with a
> UTF-8 byte order mark. Unfortunately the function dies when it reads
> the BOM. Currently I'm converting it to a stream and then filtering
> out the offending characters, but that seems terribly ugly. Is there a
> better approach? Is this something that the XML->SXML function should
> be handling itself?

[putting on XML Core Working Group hat]

This is an XML->SXML issue.  For a long time it wasn't too clear whether
UTF-8-encoded XML documents were allowed to contain a BOM or not.
(UTF-16-encoded documents are required to do so.)  As a result of an
erratum, the XML Recommendation now requires that UTF-8 BOMs be accepted
and ignored.

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