Re: UTF-8 'BOM'

From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (qrczak@knm.org.pl)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2005 - 17:18:15 CST

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Lars Kristan <lars.kristan@hermes.si> writes:

> * On UNIX, fopen is always binary, text mode is rare and even then
> very close to binary.
> * On UNIX, text mode often doesn't apply, so UNIX is by default in
> binary mode.

Formally, the text/binary mode distinction for stdio is specified in
the C standard, with the default being the text mode.

For any POSIX-conforming C implementation the text and binary modes
are identical though.

When C was born together with Unix, it did not have the distinction
of course. I don't know when it got added.

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