On 06/22/2000 10:54:35 PM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Now that Unicode plans to deprecate the use of U+FEFF as ZWNBSP, programs
that
>*expect* UTF-8 instead of SBCS will be able to throw away an initial
U+FEFF
>with even greater confidence. It may even be possible for operating
system
>developers to build this in at the OS level: open a UTF-8 text file; read
>characters; if the very first character in the file was U+FEFF then eat
it.
>Applications would never even see it. How cool would that be?
But isn't it the *application* that needs to know this is UTF-8 and not
something else?
- Peter
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Peter Constable
Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA
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