RE: Unicode and end users

From: Tom Gewecke (tom@bluesky.org)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 23:42:08 EST


>Can you please expand on your statement that UTF-8 should never have a BOM?
>Having one makes it very easy to distinguish a text file that contains UTF-8
>from one that contains text in the system default MBCS encoding.
>
>You may not be surprised to learn that Microsoft (or, at least, one of its
>programmers) does not agree with you. When I save a file from Notepad on
>Windows XP in UTF-8, the file contains a BOM.

It seems there are quite a few answers to these questions in the Unicode
utf-bom faq

http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/utf_bom.html

including mention of the Microsoft case and the fact that generally a BOM
can be used with any UTF.



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