Re: Guessing the encoding from a BOM

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Date	2014-01-17 11:14 +1100
Subject	Re: Guessing the encoding from a BOM
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Can you elaborate on that? Unless your utf-8 files will only contain ascii characters I do not understand why you would not want a bom utf-8.

It's completely unnecessary, and could cause problems (the BOM is
actually whitespace, albeit zero-width, so it could effectively indent
the first line of your source code).  UTF-8 specifies the byte order
as part of the protocol, so you don't need to mark it.

ChrisA

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Re: Guessing the encoding from a BOM Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-17 11:14 +1100

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