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