G. Adam Stanislav scripsit:
> What's a BOM? I tried to look it up on AltaVista and got a lot of religious
> references in what seemed like Portuguese ("Bom Jesus"). I suspect that is
> not what you are talking about. :-)
The Byte Order Mark character, FEFF, also known as ZERO WIDTH NON-BREAKING
SPACE, as close to a no-op as you can get. Its byte reversed fform
FFFE is a non-character, so if you always write an FEFF at the beginning
of any file, then any reader that reads FFFE knows to byte-swap the rest
of the input.
> Are you sure Notepad on Win95
> can cope with UTF-16? Perhaps on WinNT? Win95 pays only lip service to
> Unicode.
Yes, sorry, WinNT supports UTF-16-LE, and writes a correct BOM,
(first two bytes are FE FF), but it will not process UTF-16-BE
even *with* a correct BOM; it assumes the local code page instead.
> For the record, under Windows I use the editor that comes with Visual C++.
> Notepad is not exactly a programmer's editor. :-)
Yeah, we've already established that I'm not an expert, and now I'm not
a programmer either. Sheesh.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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