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Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 03:33:44 +1100
Subject: Re: Guessing the encoding from a BOM
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On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Pete Forman <petef4+usenet@gmail.com> wrote:
> It would have been nice if there was an eighth encoding scheme defined
> there UTF-8NB which would be UTF-8 with BOM not allowed.

Or call that one UTF-8, and the one with the marker can be UTF-8-MS-NOTEPAD.

ChrisA