At 09:22 AM 2/14/02 +0000, Martin Kochanski wrote:
>Are there, in fact, many circumstances in which it is necessary for an end
>user to create files that do *not* have a BOM at the beginning?
In principle this is a requirement for data being labelled *external to the
date* as being in either UTF-16BE or UTF-16LE (ditto for UTF-32). These
formats *must not* have a BOM.
However, it may be the case in practice that protocols in which documents
are labelled that way, don't accept separately edited documents, so this
may be moot.
UTF-8 should *never* contain the BOM.
A./
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