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		3036e4 13 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UTF-8 is a brilliant design Also some XML parsers I used choked on UTF-8 BOMs. Not sure if valid XML is allowed to have anything other than clean ASCII in the first few characters before declaring what the encoding is?

rmunn 13 days ago | [–]

My search also turned this up:

https://x.com/jbogard/status/1111328911609217025

If that link doesn't work, then try:

https://xcancel.com/jbogard/status/1111328911609217025

Source (which will explain the joke for anyone who didn't get it immediately):

https://www.jimmybogard.com/the-curious-case-of-the-json-bom...

rmunn 13 days ago | [–]

Oh wow. Doing a quick search I found https://www.xml.com/axml/notes/BOM.html ... which is marked © 1998.

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