Re: UTF-8 BOM (Re: Charset declaration in HTML)

Steven Atreju, Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:32:46 +0200:

> In the meanwhile the UTF-8 BOM is in the standard and thus
> contradicts fourty years of (well) good (Unix/POSIX) engineering
> and craftsmanship. Where a file is a file and everything is a
> file, holistically. Where small tools which do their thing well
> can be plugged together to achieve complex tasks. Unicode is
> very, very important. Really.
>
> In the future simple things like '$ cat File1 File2 > File3' will
> no longer work that easily.

I guess you get the same problem with UTF-16 files also, then?

-- 
Leif Halvard Silli