From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Wed Jan 19 2005 - 14:37:30 CST
On 19/01/2005 18:38, Hans Aberg wrote:
>On 2005/01/19 01:56, Peter Kirk at peterkirk@qaya.org wrote:
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>>On 19/01/2005 00:09, Hans Aberg wrote:
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>>>UTF-8 BOM's seem pointless.
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>>Maybe. Nevertheless, they exist, not only as a result of unintelligent
>>conversion from UTF-16 or UTF-32 to UTF-8, but also because at least one
>>UTF-8 editor, Notepad on Windows 2000 (and XP?), always emits a BOM at
>>the start of a UTF-8 file.
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>Well, it seems easier to change that single editor, then. ...
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It's not easy to change a program with an installed base in the hundreds
of millions worldwide! But I suppose it could be done as part of a
Windows service pack etc.
But that assumes that everyone would agree that this change would be a
good idea. Oliver doesn't, and he makes a good point.
>... Or write a program
>that removes it at need. Note however that most tools will just act on byte
>streams. If there is a generated lexer involved, if correctly written, it
>will generate an error for anything that is not correct. On the BOM
>question, some fellows simply wants the BOM's to be ignored.
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I thought everyone was required to ignore BOM's, as soon as the encoding
has been determined.
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