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3853Add note about why we strip all BOMs.2009-09-15 04:06
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--- source	(revision 3852)
+++ source	(revision 3853)
@@ -76644,6 +76644,12 @@
   <p>One leading U+FEFF BYTE ORDER MARK character must be ignored if
   any are present.</p>
 
+  <p class="note">The requirement to strip a U+FEFF BYTE ORDER MARK
+  character regardless of whether that character was used to determine
+  the byte order is a <span>willful violation</span> of Unicode,
+  motivated by a desire to increase the resilience of user agents in
+  the face of na&iuml;ve transcoders.</p>
+
   <p>All U+0000 NULL characters in the input must be replaced by
   U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTERs. Any occurrences of such characters is
   a <span>parse error</span>.</p>

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