Re: BOM and principle of least surprise
[email protected] (Jarkko Hietaniemi)
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Erland Sommarskog wrote: > Jarkko Hietaniemi ([email protected]) writes: > >>Though I must say that personally I would avoid using BOM with UTF-8: >>there is little reason to use a byte order mark with UTF-8 since UTF-8 >>is byte order independent. > > True. But then there is this pesky little issue: do we have a UTF-8 > file or a file in an 8-bit charset. And the way they do it on Windows Personally I prefer bits. > is by BOM, like it or not... Not. Any other questions? :-) > Thanks for the update on the possibly upcoming patches! -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <[email protected]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen