>> I'm editing UTF-8 files on linux and got bitten by the unexpected BOM >> character being inserted at the front of the file. > > The BOM character is not unexpected.
It was unexpected to me, and my parser application :-). > SciTE is doing the right thing. See the Dec 2006 thread for discussion of this. My conclusion: it is optional, and just helps identify a file as UTF-8. By comparison Linux's gedit doesn't insert it (it might preserve if already there - I didn't test). Anyway, once I understood what the encoding menu options meant, SciTE was doing the right thing for me too. My email was just to add weight to the opinions that the menu options could be renamed to avoid the confusion I experienced: 8-bit --> Default UTF-8 --> UTF-8 With BOM UTF-8 Cookie --> UTF-8 No BOM "8-bit" could be re-written as "Whatever your properties specify". But "Default" is snappier :-). Darren _______________________________________________ Scite-interest mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/scite-interest
