On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 12:03:41PM +0100, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
> 11.03.2016 11:56, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
> > Please, use UTF-8 for these files (without BOM, BOM is discouraged for
> > UTF-8).
>
> Yes, it is discouraged, but it is the only reliable way to detect file
> encoding automatically.
Definitely not reliable.
> Unfortunately, most of text editors (including Notepad) by default
> save files in ANSI encoding. Forcing configs to be UTF-8 only will
> cause problems to not-much-clever users and a lot of work for
> support. Requirement to save configs in UTF-8 with BOM is not too
> hard to fulfill for advanced users if properly documented.
If so, I'm not an advanced user. I certainly don't know which of the
many text utilities would preserve BOM.
Also, I'm pretty sure I would keep forgetting even if I knew. And that
there would be many users falling into this trap.
Michal Kubecek
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