On 11/24/09 at 11:25 AM, [email protected] (Maarten Sneep) wrote: >Is there is fact a valid reason to use unicode files with a byte order >marker?
There are several I can think of. :-) The biggest one is that writing a byte-order mark will unambiguously identify the encoding of the file, without requiring any parsing or decoding of its contents. However, lots of software can't deal with a Unicode BOM, even in this day and age, so for some applications the BOM causes more problems than it solves. R. -- Rich Siegel Bare Bones Software, Inc. <[email protected]> <http://www.barebones.com/> Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they sedate me. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group.
