Re: Charset reviewer appointed

[Dan Kegel <dank@alumni.caltech.edu>]

At 09:31 PM 7/27/98 +0900, MURATA Makoto wrote:
>Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
>> At 08:51 25.07.98 +0900, Martin J. Duerst wrote:
>> >However, please note that XML already decided to make
>> >the BOM mandatory for UTF-16. I told them that that was
>> >not something they should define, but they didn't listen.
>...
>Making the BOM optional is an upper-compatible change.

What would the consequences be at this point for XML
if this group tried to mandate a byte order for "UTF-16"
and mandate a BOM for "marked-UTF-16"?
- Dan