RE: Designing a multilingual web site

From: Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com
Date: Wed Jul 19 2000 - 13:32:09 EDT


Munzir Taha wrote:
> >utf-8: ef bb bf
> >utf-16be: fe ff
> >utf-16le: ff fe
> >utf-32be: 00 00 fe ff
> >utf-32le: ff fe 00 00 (check before utf-16le!)
> >scsu: 0e fe ff (unfortunately rather rarely used)
>
> Sorry for being a dummy about this. But I can't understand
> where these bytes
> lie. How can I see them or check them? If it's a long subject to be
> explained, please refer me to where I can get more info about
> this subject,
> will you?

You are a lucky guy! The new Unicode FAQ has been released just a few
minutes before your mail, and it contains a whole section dedicated to your
question:

        http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/utf_bom.html

_ Marco



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