Steven Atreju, Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:32:46 +0200: > In the meanwhile the UTF-8 BOM is in the standard and thus > contradicts fourty years of (well) good (Unix/POSIX) engineering > and craftsmanship. Where a file is a file and everything is a > file, holistically. Where small tools which do their thing well > can be plugged together to achieve complex tasks. Unicode is > very, very important. Really. > > In the future simple things like '$ cat File1 File2 > File3' will > no longer work that easily.
I guess you get the same problem with UTF-16 files also, then? -- Leif Halvard Silli
