On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:01:48 -0400, Mark Jacobs wrote:
>One of my users is trying to send a mainframe file to another sever,
>converting it to UTF-8 with Byte Order Mark(BOM). So far he hasn't been
>able to get it to work, Has anyone here been able to do so? These are
>some of the things he's tried. (and variations of)
>
>site encoding=mbcs
>site mbdataconn(IBM-037,UTF-8)
>site unicodefilesystembom=always **
>
Is UTF-8 really Byte Order sensitive? That sucks!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Byte_order_mark
The Unicode Standard neither requires nor recommends the use of the BOM for
UTF-8.[30]
The presence of the UTF-8 BOM may cause interoperability problems with
existing software
that could otherwise handle UTF-8;
-- gil
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