> Though my hex math isn't good enough to do it in my head, it > looks like the > UTF-8 version of the Unicode byte order mark. I know that there was some > controversy as to whether that was legal, since the BOM is supposed to > indicate byte order for Unicode, whereas UTF-8 has no byte order. OTOH, if > you encode Unicode in UTF-8, is it required to strip the BOM, or > just encode > it as UTF-8?
Ah, this makes a lot of sense. I just remembered that the file was originally saved as Unicode, and then re-saved as UTF-8. I guess those bytes just remained intact in Notepad's conversion.. - Brendan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
