At 17:45 14/02/02 -0800, Asmus Freytag wrote:
>In principle this [not having a BOM] is a requirement for data being labelled *external to the
>data* as being in either UTF-16BE or UTF-16LE (ditto for UTF-32). These
>formats *must not* have a BOM.
>UTF-8 should *never* contain the BOM.
Even allowing this to be the case, I do not believe that any program aimed towards end users (eg. shrinkwrapped Windows programs) will **ever** insist on well-formed UTF so thoroughly that it complains if a BOM is present: there would be no benefit to the user in doing this.
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