Re: Several BOMs in the same file

From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Sun Mar 23 2003 - 09:01:21 EST

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    You can remove a per-file prefix, certainly. This would make sense.

    But if you do not, what is the harm of a character that you cannot see
    and which does not even have width or cause line breaking behavior?
    Realistically, what would the problem be?

    MichKa

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Stefan Persson" <alsjebegrijptwatikbedoel@yahoo.se>
    To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 4:14 AM
    Subject: Several BOMs in the same file

    > Hi!
    >
    > Let's say that I have two files, namely file1 & file2, in any
    Unicode
    > encoding, both starting with a BOM, and I compile them into one by
    using
    >
    > cat file1 file2 > file3
    >
    > in Unix or
    >
    > copy file1 + file2 file3
    >
    > in MS-DOS, file3 will have the following contents:
    >
    > BOM
    > contents from file1
    > BOM
    > contents from file2
    >
    > Is this in accordance with the Unicode standard, or do I have to
    remove
    > the second BOM?
    >
    > Stefan
    >
    >
    >

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