Re: XM_EIFFEL_INPUT_STREAM

Bernd Schoeller <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.eiffel.gobo.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 11:08:33AM +0200, Eric Bezault wrote:
> This answers only the first question. Is there a way
> to know whether there is a BOM (I guess that in that case
> the offset is always 2) or should we scan the beginning
> of the file/stream by hand to figure that out?
> knowing the position relative to what is shown in an
> editor is one thing, knowing the position in the input
> stream is another that could also be interesting.
> 

AFAIK, the BOM in UFT16 is 2 bytes, is UTF32 is 4 bytes and in UTF8 it
is 3 bytes. In any case, the offset is 1 character.

Bernd


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