One thing about gmail that I dislike is its insistance of replying ONLY to an author, and not to everyone, when typing into the response box.
Anyway... On 5/31/07, Paul Schauble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, as long as we're being pedantic... It's a Byte Order Mark when it is the first two bytes in the file. It's a ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE in any other position. In any case, in the Windows environment files without a BOM are rare. How do Linux system format Unicode files?
Most Linux programs use UTF-8 for Unicode files, because they're (minimum) 50% smaller without compromising functionality. AFAIK, they do not use a BOM for identifying UTF-8 files because BOMs aren't required (and indeed, meaningless) for UTF-8 files. -- Samuel A. Falvo II _______________________________________________ darcs-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
