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> Wprint (a postscript filter for Netscape/Mozilla printing output) is
> now, under FreeBSD sending the "fffe" as a valid character because it
> does not expect it. Although it is easy to just skip it if it is
> present I would like to know if it should be present at all.
U+FEFF is the BOM (Byte Order Mark) or ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE. It
can in some circumstances be useful to have this at the beginning of a
file or datastream to distinguish big-endian UTF-16 from little-endian
UTF-16 (and from UTF-8, etc), however, it can also be harmful, so I
don't think iconv should be generating or interpreting BOMs by
default.
Should iconv perhaps have command-line arguments --bom-in and
--bom-out or something similar?
Edmund
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