On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:12:43PM -0700, Jonathan Coxhead wrote: > But a BOM in every UTF-16 plain text file would make this completely > hopeless. If we ever think we might want to do UNIX-style text processing on > UTF-16, we have to resist that!
So the Unix people, because they might someday want to use UTF-16 plain text (why? may as well go to UTF-32), should object to somebody else using a BOM on a file format they actually use? -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side." - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet)
