Jarkko Hietaniemi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes: > Though I must say that personally I would avoid using BOM with UTF-8: > there is little reason to use a byte order mark with UTF-8 since UTF-8 > is byte order independent.
True. But then there is this pesky little issue: do we have a UTF-8 file or a file in an 8-bit charset. And the way they do it on Windows is by BOM, like it or not... Thanks for the update on the possibly upcoming patches! -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
