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Re: To get Unicode file (UTF8) with a leading byte-order-marker charact
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Jason Rumney |
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Re: To get Unicode file (UTF8) with a leading byte-order-marker characters? |
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Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:14:00 -0000 |
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On Jun 15, 1:29 pm, Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-ab...@ilyaz.org> wrote:
> On 2010-06-13, to...@tuxteam.de <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> ??? If you know it it UTF-8, the BOM is not necessary. But the same
> holds for any other encoding of Unicode. So your sentiment makes no
> sense here...
Think about what the letters BOM stand for, and you might see why it
is relevant for UTF-16, but redundant for UTF-8.