Zbigniew scripsit:
> BOM breaks the UNIX shebang mechanism.  To me, this is good enough
> reason to avoid prepending a BOM to scripts, and to detect encoding
> via heuristic, user directive or current locale.

I agree w/r/t scripts.

My point is not that it's a Good Thing to generate 8-BOMs, but that
it's a Good Thing to accept them, in accordance with Postel's law.

-- 
Knowledge studies others / Wisdom is self-known;      John Cowan
Muscle masters brothers / Self-mastery is bone;       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Content need never borrow / Ambition wanders blind;   http://ccil.org/~cowan
Vitality cleaves to the marrow / Leaving death behind.    --Tao 33 (Bynner)


_______________________________________________
Chicken-users mailing list
Chicken-users@nongnu.org
http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

Reply via email to