-----Original Message-----
From: Samuel A. Falvo II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 2:47 PM
To: Paul Schauble
Cc: David Roundy; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [darcs-devel] DARCS for Windows international development
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?
Thanks.
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Samuel A. Falvo II
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That last is exactly correct. The Byte Order Mark also identifies the
file as Unicode. It provides a unique signature for UTF-8, UTF-16LE, and
UTF-16BE files.
++PLS
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