From: Markus Scherer (markus.scherer@jtcsv.com)
Date: Fri May 21 2004 - 15:27:34 CDT
Michael Everson wrote:
> At 08:31 -0700 2004-05-21, Mark Davis wrote:
>>> I am not very happy about loading the plain-text in browsers. Three
>>> of my browsers load it and *all* the French UTF-8 is displayed in
>>> Latin 1.
>>
>> Michael, you just need to put a BOM at the start of the file. Direct
>> access to
>> the plain text file, would be much preferred. The file is small --
>> there is no
>> need to zip it (unlike, say, Unihan!).
>
> I asked you yesterday "How?".
In Windows Notepad, if you save as UTF-8, then you get a BOM/signature.
(It has been suggested in the past to define a charset name that implies the use of the signature
with UTF-8 much like the UTF-16 charset/CES works.)
markus
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