Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > UTF-8 is chars so BOM has no place there...
Right. I see that now, but it was the act of (trying to) explain that revealed to me that I actually didn't understand things after all. I now understand that Windows file formats tend to output directly the UCS-2/UTF-16 that is used internally. It never occurred to me before that they would do such a thing. Angus
