On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 20:10 +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote: > When I tell the editor to save UTF-8, it inserts some weird "BOM" > character at the start of the file - and thus, any attempt at > programatically processing that file instantly fails. :-(
While BOMs (Byte Order Mark) are pretty irrelevant to byte-oriented encodings like UTF-8, I think programs that fail on their presence can be considered buggy. -k _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe