Re: Subject: Re: 32'nd bit & UTF-8

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Tue Jan 18 2005 - 18:56:56 CST

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    On 19/01/2005 00:09, Hans Aberg wrote:

    > ...
    >
    >UTF-8 BOM's seem pointless.
    >
    >
    >
    Maybe. Nevertheless, they exist, not only as a result of unintelligent
    conversion from UTF-16 or UTF-32 to UTF-8, but also because at least one
    UTF-8 editor, Notepad on Windows 2000 (and XP?), always emits a BOM at
    the start of a UTF-8 file. 

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