The context is data that are not Unicode. Ban the BOM! IETF recommends leaving UTF-8 files alone, but m$ can't be bothered. Did I mention that I hate editors that corrupt my source files, as well as the compilers that can't be bothered to display the hex encoding of invalid nondisplayable characters?
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 8, 2018 2:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CSSMTP debug No Brackets Allowed On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 16:26:57 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >What are people using these days, Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1), Latin-9 (ISO 8859-15) >or some m$ perversion of one of them? > Context? Most desktop systems seem to be gravitating to UTF-8. Is UTF-8 with a BOM perversion enough? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
