[whatwg] U+FEFF (BOM) stripping in UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Øistein E. Andersen wrote:
>
> § 9.2.2.2 "Preprocessing the input stream" requires that a leading 
> U+FEFF (byte order mark) be stripped irrespective of encoding, contra 
> Unicode, which says that a leading U+FEFF is part of the document when 
> the byte order is already established by other means.  This is probably 
> harmless and potentially useful to deal with bislabelled documents, but 
> it might be worth adding an explanatory note.

Fixed.

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