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Tim Streater wrote:
> In article <jmsedj$44p$1@dont-email.me>,
> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/20/2012 3:13 PM, Michael Fesser wrote:
>> > .oO(Jerry Stuckle)
>> >
>> >> IOW, you screwed up and the others here were right.<?php was NOT the
>> >> first thing in your file!
>> >
>> > But this issue is not the most obvious, so you can't blame it on him.
>> > Some editors store a BOM without giving notice, others hide such
>> > settings somewhere deep in the preferences.
>> >
>> > Hopefully this problem will completely vanish with native Unicode
>> > support in PHP 6.
> 
>> That's why you should never use a UTF-8 editor.  Of, if you need to, 
>> ensure that it's saving in ASCII mode.
> 
> Rubbish. All my files are saved in UTF-8, which is no BOM by default. 
> For the most part this means they are the same as ASCII files, but if I 
> want to add chars like ƒ (curlique-f or whatever it's called), I can do 
> that.

wiki has this to say:

The Unicode Standard does permit the BOM in UTF-8,[2] but does not 
require or recommend its use.[3] Byte order has no meaning in UTF-8[4] 
so in UTF-8 the BOM serves only to identify a text stream or file as UTF-8.

> 
> I got fed up when my email client (written in PHP and JavaScript) kept 
> displaying chinese as rubbish characters. A decision to use UTF-8 
> throughout, paying careful attention to the charsets that the received 
> data said it was using, converting to UTF-8 where appropriate in PHP, 
> sending the right headers, and doing the right thing on the JS side has 
> meant that displayed mails look correct.
> 
> Windows-generated mails have a habit of lying about the charset they are 
> using, but that's easy to fix up.
> 
Never found a reliable way to do that..



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session question William Gill <noreply@domain.invalid> - 2012-04-12 12:43 -0400
  Re: session question Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2012-04-12 09:56 -0700
  Re: session question "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-04-12 19:43 +0200
  Re: session question "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-04-12 19:59 +0200
  Re: session question Captain Paralytic <paul_lautman@yahoo.com> - 2012-04-13 02:18 -0700
  Re: session question Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2012-04-13 13:27 +0000
    Re: session question William Gill <noreply@domain.invalid> - 2012-04-13 13:51 -0400
      Re: session question Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-04-13 15:54 -0400
      Re: session question William Gill <nospam@domain.invalid> - 2012-04-20 02:40 -0400
        Re: session question "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-04-20 10:55 +0200
        Re: session question Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2012-04-20 11:25 +0200
        Re: session question Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-04-20 08:11 -0400
          Re: session question William Gill <noreply@domain.invalid> - 2012-04-20 10:59 -0400
            Re: session question William Gill <noreply@domain.invalid> - 2012-04-20 11:32 -0400
            Re: session question Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> - 2012-04-20 17:50 +0200
              Re: session question William Gill <nospam@domain.invalid> - 2012-04-20 12:04 -0400
                Re: session question Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-04-20 18:17 +0100
                Re: session question "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-04-20 20:08 +0200
                Re: session question Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-04-20 20:36 +0100
                Re: session question William Gill <nospam@domain.invalid> - 2012-04-21 18:13 -0400
                Re: session question Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-04-20 14:22 -0400
                Re: session question William Gill <nospam@domain.invalid> - 2012-04-20 15:04 -0400
                Re: session question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-04-20 22:09 +0100
                Re: session question Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> - 2012-04-20 21:13 +0200
                Re: session question Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-04-20 15:45 -0400
                Re: session question Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-04-20 23:11 +0100
                Re: session question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-04-20 23:23 +0100
                Re: session question Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-04-21 13:14 +0100
                Re: session question Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-04-20 18:45 -0400
                Re: session question Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> - 2012-04-21 01:24 +0200
                Re: session question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-04-21 01:28 +0100

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