On Oct 5, 5:10 pm, de...@web.de (Diez B. Roggisch) wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> writes: > > In message > > <a6080839-c74d-4466-aa21-f8c4827cb...@y12g2000prb.googlegroups.com>, TheOne > > wrote: > > >> I want the source files to have BOM character. > > > What exactly is the point of a BOM in a UTF-8-encoded file? > > It's a MS-specific thing that makes a file identifieable as > UTF-8-encoded under windows. The name BOM is obviously BS, but it's the > way it is. > > Diez
I didn't know that it's a MS-thing. (Is it really?) Anyway, it would be great if I could make my eclipse/pydev to understand the BOM character and suppress the lexical error msg. -- Daewon YOON -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
