[EMAIL PROTECTED] scripsit: > I find it interesting, then, to see Michael saying that, since Notepad > sticks a BOM-cum-signature at the start of its UTF-8, the rest of the > world should support it.
There is another argument, viz. ISO/IEC 10646, which plainly proclaims that the 8-BOM is a valid signature for UTF-8 files. -- Even a refrigerator can conform to the XML John Cowan Infoset, as long as it has a door sticker [EMAIL PROTECTED] saying "No information items inside". http://www.reutershealth.com --Eve Maler http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

