David Hopwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Right, except BOMs break tons of Unix applications (and even
>> occasional Windows ones) which do not expect them.
>
> This problem is overstated. A BOM anywhere in a text causes no
> problem with display, and *should* be treated as an ignorable
> character for searching, etc.
It is not ignorable in most file formats, and it is not automatically
ignored by reading functions of most programming languages.
> Note that there are plenty of other characters that should be
> treated as ignorable, so the applications that are broken for BOMs
> are broken more generally.
I disagree. UTF-8 BOM should not be used on Unix. It's not a reliable
method of encoding detection in general (applies only to Unicode),
and it breaks the simplicity of text streams.
--
__("< Marcin Kowalczyk
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