Re: iconv output utf-8 -> utf-16, which one is wrong?

[H. Peter Anvin]

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By author:    Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> I think glibc is wrong here and ought to prefix the output with
> 0xFEFF, like it does when converting to "UNICODE" instead of "UTF-16".
> 

I would say this isn't really a good idea... a BOM isn't
meaning-neutral, so if you're converting pieces of text and end up
adding BOMs in the middle, you have changed the meaning.

(Making U+FEFF having any meaning other than BOM was a dumb idea,
IMO, but I also think combining postfix was dumb.)

        -hpa
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