[jdev] Short thoughts about DNS/SRV, Unicode, Stanza namespace prefix

[Waqas Hussain]

> :: 2 - Encoding
>
> Character Encoding: It is not clear if a client/server may send a UTF-8
> BOM (byte order marker). This should be clarified. I'm not in favor of
> either way, but it should be pointed out.
> Unicode: It is not clear how a stream should handle invalid (ill) utf-8
> sequences.

"[...] an implementation MUST NOT send a byte order mark ("BOM") at
the beginning of the data stream." -
http://xmpp.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-xmpp-3920bis-22.html#xml-encoding