[boost] [serialization][documentation] character encoding oddity

From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-24 14:56:36

Hi,

http://boost.org/libs/serialization/doc/contents.html shows three 
strange characters at the top of the page ().

Apparently, those characters have the values EF BB BF in hexadecimal 
notation. Interpreted as UTF-8 sequence, they encode the Unicode 
codepoint FFFE. This codepoint is used as a marker for the endianness in 
encodings other than UTF-8. I doubt such a marker would be legal in or 
would make sense for an UTF-8 encoded document. Also, the document's 
content-type meta-tag claims the document uses ISO-8859-1.

I suspect there's a problem in the toolchain used to create the document 
(oherwise, I would have fixed it in the repository).

Regards,
m
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