On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Max Bolingbroke <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4 April 2011 11:34, Daniel Fischer <[email protected]> > wrote: >> If there's only a single encoding recognised, UTF-8 surely should be the >> one (though perhaps Windows users might disagree, iirc, Windows uses UCS2 >> as standard encoding). > > Windows APIs use UTF-16, but the encoding of files (which is the > relevant point here) is almost uniformly UTF-8 - though of course you > can find legacy apps making other choices. >
Would we need to specifically allow for a Windows-style leading BOM in UTF-8 documents? I can never remember if it is truly a part of UTF-8 or not. > Cheers, > Max > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
