Allow creation of UTF-8 logs without a BOM.
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Key: LOG4NET-329
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4NET-329
Project: Log4net
Issue Type: Wish
Components: Appenders
Affects Versions: 1.2.11
Environment: Windows 7.
Reporter: Ben Monroe
Priority: Minor
When an appender uses the "utf-8" encoding, output logs will append a BOM to
the start of a file. This is problematic when the log file is only supposed to
output errors. Explorer reports the file size as non-0, so the only way to know
if an error actually occurred is to open the log every time and check. This is
not desirable.
Further, from the Unicode FAQ (http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html), a BOM is
unnecessary for UTF-8 since it is already a sequence of bytes, so there are no
endian problems to solve in the first place.
Removal of the BOM is not necessary, but should also provide a means to use
UTF-8 without a BOM. That could be a new encoding name such as "utf-8_nobom" or
as a separate attribute such as "bom=false" or something else.
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