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Re: [Chicken-users] BOM in a Scheme source file
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John Cowan |
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Re: [Chicken-users] BOM in a Scheme source file |
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Sun, 9 Sep 2007 22:18:34 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Zbigniew scripsit:
> BOM breaks the UNIX shebang mechanism. To me, this is good enough
> reason to avoid prepending a BOM to scripts, and to detect encoding
> via heuristic, user directive or current locale.
I agree w/r/t scripts.
My point is not that it's a Good Thing to generate 8-BOMs, but that
it's a Good Thing to accept them, in accordance with Postel's law.
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- [Chicken-users] BOM in a Scheme source file, Shawn Rutledge, 2007/09/08
- Re: [Chicken-users] BOM in a Scheme source file, Pierpaolo Bernardi, 2007/09/08
- Re: [Chicken-users] BOM in a Scheme source file, Graham Fawcett, 2007/09/08
- Re: [Chicken-users] BOM in a Scheme source file, Pierpaolo Bernardi, 2007/09/09
- Re: [Chicken-users] BOM in a Scheme source file, Elf, 2007/09/09
- Re: [Chicken-users] BOM in a Scheme source file, Shawn Rutledge, 2007/09/09
- Re: [Chicken-users] BOM in a Scheme source file, Elf, 2007/09/09
- Re: [Chicken-users] BOM in a Scheme source file, John Cowan, 2007/09/09
- Re: [Chicken-users] BOM in a Scheme source file, Zbigniew, 2007/09/09
- Re: [Chicken-users] BOM in a Scheme source file,
John Cowan <=
- Re: [Chicken-users] BOM in a Scheme source file, John Cowan, 2007/09/09
- Re: [Chicken-users] BOM in a Scheme source file, Pierpaolo Bernardi, 2007/09/10
- Re: [Chicken-users] BOM in a Scheme source file, Elf, 2007/09/09