On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:46:53PM -0700, Samuel A. Falvo II wrote: > On 5/30/07, Paul Schauble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Windows, Unicode files, both UTF-8 and UTF-16LE, will contain a > > What good is a BOM in UTF-8? I thought the layout for UTF-8 is always > the same, regardless of machine endianness? > > Or, does it exist only to tell a reader that it actually _is_ a UTF-x file?
Right, the BOM is abused as a file signature. Stefan _______________________________________________ darcs-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
