Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8

From	Alex <alex@rivadpm.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8
Date	2017-05-25 21:28 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 5/25/2017 17:51, Julian Fondren wrote:
> On Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 5:17:49 AM UTC-5, Anton Ertl wrote:
>> Should be put
>> code in non-Windows Forth systems to ignore this sequence.  What for?
> 
> Windows customers. They can use FTP to update their website on your
> server, introducing byte-order marks from their editor. They can
> upload some OS-agnostic code to theforth.net that includes it.

Stupidly, Microsoft say this; 
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd374101(v=vs.85).aspx

> 
>> An easy way to deal with it is to produce a noop word with that name,
>> and have a space after that word in all files that start with this
>> word.
> 
> It's hard, though, to take such care with an invisible threat.
> 

It's visible as ï»¿ using code page 1252.

It may be that you want your Forth to remove it during INCLUDE but I 
would hate to see it standardized.

-- 
Alex

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RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2017-05-24 16:17 -0700
  Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-05-25 09:32 +0000
    Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-05-25 12:09 +0100
      Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2017-05-25 09:40 -0700
    Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-05-25 09:51 -0700
      Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-05-25 21:28 +0100
        Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-05-26 09:39 +0000
          Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-05-26 13:27 +0100
            Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-05-26 14:56 +0000
            Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2017-05-31 21:55 -0700
              Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-06-01 06:23 +0000
      Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-05-26 09:45 +0000

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