in reply to Re^3: Conversion from UTF-8 to windows-1256 encoding
in thread Conversion from UTF-8 to windows-1256 encoding

Not just Windows. At least one World Wide Web Consortium spec has a similar convention. CSS agents should check for various encoding of the BOM, including its UTF-8 encoding.
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