[e] (0) Add note about why we strip all BOMs.

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whatwg · Sep 15, 2009 · f4ecda4 · f4ecda4
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@@ -62089,6 +62089,12 @@ interface <dfn id=messageport>MessagePort</dfn> {
   <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 <a href=#willful-violation>willful violation</a> 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 <a href=#parse-error>parse error</a>.</p>

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@@ -76644,6 +76644,12 @@ interface <dfn>MessagePort</dfn> {
   <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>