On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:26:22 +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch said: > We will see how it develops. Actually the marker could be used to detect > endianness of the file if I read below URL correctly .... Text files have endianness???? > ---- snip ---- > Q: How I should deal with BOMs? > [...] > 3. Some byte oriented protocols expect ASCII characters at the beginning > of a file. If UTF-8 is used with these protocols, use of the BOM as > encoding form signature should be avoided. > ---- snip ---- > Voila. Avoid the BOM in your scripts and be done. At which point the proposed kernel patch becomes pointless.. ;)
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