> An important note: what Notepad does here is only "acceptable". It's > not even recommended. HTML 4 clearly doesn't allow a UTF-8 BOM appear > before the HTML tag. Notepad is supposed to be a text editor. A text > editor shouldn't insert markup by itself. BTW, ISIRI 6219 strongly > discourages the use of a BOM in UTF-8 files.
The problem here is that web protocols (HTML for example) don't allow the BOM, and Notepad is not an HTML editor, so there's nothing to prevent it from adding the BOM. Check out: http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#28 ------------- Ehsan Akhgari Farda Technology (http://www.farda-tech.com/) List Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ WWW: http://www.beginthread.com/Ehsan ] 'I generally take life as it comes my way', said Death. _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
