meryl <[email protected]> writes:
> Back in 'the bad old days' when I wrote php pages using ms notepad I could
> simply choose the option to save as "UTF-8 without the BOM" (byte order
> mark).
>
> Now I use Linux and have many txt eds installed (gedit, Kate, KompoZer,
> Bluefish and Quanta plus to name but a few) but I cannot find in any of
> them the option to save as "UTF-8 without BOM". please help.
Use of the byte-order mark in Unicode is a specifically Microsoft abomination,
and no other platform uses it. It exists mostly because they flat-out refused
to implement Unicode at all unless they were allowed a little-endian version
of it, despite the standard being network byte order.
So ... there isn't such an option. *Adding* a byte-order mark might be an
option with some tools, but generally you just get UTF-8 if your tool saves to
text of any sort in a UTF-8 locale.
Regards,
Daniel
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