Re: [Yaml-core] YAML Prologue Proposal

[Oren Ben-K. <or...@be...>]

On Sunday 12 September 2004 03:05, David Hopwood wrote:
> > - The YAML stream has a single character encoding determined by
> >   an optional BOM character in the first prologue of the stream.
> >   If this BOM character is missing, the UTF-8 encoding is
> >   implied.
>
> Always UTF-8,

Yes.

> even though UTF-16 can be auto-detected despite the 
> missing BOM?

It can't, because the first character of a YAML stream may be any 
(printable) Unicode character. It need not be an ASCII character.

Have fun,

	Oren Ben-Kiki