H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> BOM should not be used in UTF-8. In fact, it shouldn't be used at
> all.
Says who? In UTF-8, it is not used to indicate a byte order; instead,
it is used to indicate the fact that the file is UTF-8, like a magic.
That's why I prefer to call it "UTF-8 signature".
The Unicode consortium thinks that the BOM can be used in UTF-8:
http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#29
The UTF-8 signature is very useful, and I would prefer if it would
be used instead of format-specific encoding declarations.
Regards,
Martin
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