[jdev] BOM

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Jonathan Dickinson wrote:
> Much obliged. As a case of interopability, maybe something like:
> entities MUST NOT send byte order marks, however, they MUST tolerate
> them.

I'm not sure exactly what "tolerate" means.

> I am sure there are one or two (possible no longer maintained)
> libraries out there that ignorantly write them out. 2 years ago
> agsxmpp did (qualified with a quick paroosal, so don't quote me on
> that) so I wouldn't be surprised at all if some others did.

Quite possible, yes.

> A little OT, is there any list of specific ammendments to 3920, I am
> pretty familiar with 3920 so I might miss some of the
> changes/clarifications.

Appendix F of rfc3920bis has a short list of the majuor changes, but not
a complete list of every piece of text that has changed. I can make a
more complete list if desired.

/psa