On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 18:26:08 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>The context is data that are not Unicode.
>
>Ban the BOM! IETF recommends leaving UTF-8 files alone, but m$ can't be
>bothered.
>
It's more complicated thatn that, but, yes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark#UTF-8
> ... 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?
>
Or squeeze several characters of illegible hex into a single character cell.
-- gil
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