From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Mon Nov 04 2002 - 11:33:54 EST
Joseph Boyle <Boyle at siebel dot com> wrote:
> Software currently under development could use the identifiers for
> choosing whether to require or emit BOM, like the file requirements
> checker I have to write, and ICU/uconv.
Alternatively, software could use a completely separate flag to indicate
whether a BOM is to be written or not. That is what SC UniPad does, for
instance. Any type of Unicode file -- UTF-32, UTF-16, UTF-8, SCSU, even
UTF-7 -- can have a BOM or not.
Encoding identifiers that have been overloaded to denote the presence or
absence of BOM, such as "UTF-16" to indicate there is a BOM and
"UTF-16LE" or "-BE" to indicate there isn't, are often misused and may
not be as useful as you think.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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