Adam Flinton wrote: > Equally if a text editor opens an ADL, assumes UTF-8 & puts on a BOM > then the Archetype editor dies ... >
I assume you mean the Java Archetype Editor, Adam. The Ocean Archetype Editor accepts ADL files with or without the BOM. There are pros and cons whether tools should put a BOM at the start of ADL files. * As Thomas pointed out, tools that are not Unicode-aware may blow up if the BOM is present. * On the other hand, if you omit the BOM then Unicode-aware tools have a big problem when they open a file. What encoding should they assume? Some tools like Windows Notepad seem to be very clever at figuring it out, but others that I have tried in the past (Visual Studio 2005, Vim 6.4 and Mac TextEdit) misinterpret BOM-less UTF-8 files as Latin-1. - Peter
