diff --git a/SAMv1.tex b/SAMv1.tex index c1d76d1a..45cf2a81 100644 --- a/SAMv1.tex +++ b/SAMv1.tex @@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ \section{The SAM Format Specification} BAM file may optionally specify the version being used via the {\tt @HD VN} tag. For full version history see Appendix~\ref{sec:history}. +The cat in the hat. + SAM file contents are 7-bit US-ASCII, except for certain field values as individually specified which may contain other Unicode characters encoded in UTF-8. Alternatively and equivalently, SAM files are encoded in UTF-8 but non-ASCII characters are permitted only within certain field values as explicitly specified in the descriptions of those fields.% \footnote{Hence in particular SAM files must not begin with a byte order mark~(BOM) and lines of text are delimited by ASCII line terminator characters only.