From: D. Starner (shalesller@writeme.com)
Date: Tue Jan 18 2005 - 15:58:58 CST
"Jon Hanna" writes:
> > In , the use of BOM is
> > discouraged for use on UNIX platforms. So if endianness may appear to
> > becomes a problem, it might be better to use UTF-8 externally, and then
> > convert it to UTF-32/H/L internally in the program.
>
> Discouraged or not, it's in the standard, you have to support it.
That may or may not be true in a standards conformance sense, but
it's defintely not true in the real world. UTF-8 is a minimal
change for easy conversion in the Unix world, and nobody is going
to change the low-level tools to recognize the BOM, especially the
ones that are used for byte-streams as well as text. Stuff that
supports a dozen different formats may as well support UTF-8 BOMs,
but a lot of stuff doesn't and won't.
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