On Mon, 24 May 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 23:13, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > > > and Notepad is not an HTML editor > > What is notepad? A text editor? Text editors should not insert a UTF-8 > BOM either. The problem is that Microsoft sometimes invents non-standard > things and then pushes it so hard that Unicode adds it to parts of the > standard (or an FAQ). "Microsoft conventions for .txt files" in the > Unicode FAQ looks sarcastic to me.
You know, Microsoft needed that little trick for the transition from legacy character sets to UTF-8. > roozbeh --behdad behdad.org _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
