On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Tony Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Note, that you probably do not want to use BOM with UTF-8. >> See http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#29 (Q: Can a UTF-8 data stream >> contain the BOM character (in UTF-8 form)? If yes, then can I still >> assume the remaining UTF-8 bytes are in big-endian order?) > The BOM can also be used in UTF-8, not to determine endianness (which is > not relevant for UTF-8 -- one could argue that UTF-8 is always > big-endian) but to distinguish UTF-8 from other encodings including > UTF-16 and UTF-32. How can you argue that? UTF-8 is neither big-endian nor little-endian. It's just a sequence of 8-bit bytes. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
