At 09:22 AM 2/14/02 +0000, Martin Kochanski wrote: >Are there, in fact, many circumstances in which it is necessary for an end >user to create files that do *not* have a BOM at the beginning?
In principle this is a requirement for data being labelled *external to the date* as being in either UTF-16BE or UTF-16LE (ditto for UTF-32). These formats *must not* have a BOM. However, it may be the case in practice that protocols in which documents are labelled that way, don't accept separately edited documents, so this may be moot. UTF-8 should *never* contain the BOM. A./
