On May 10, 2012, at 11:52 AM, Juan C. Sanz wrote: > El 10/05/2012 20:36, Dave Fisher escribió: >> On May 10, 2012, at 11:15 AM, sebb wrote: >> >>> On 10 May 2012 07:17, Dennis E. Hamilton<dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote: >>>> 1. You can Save as UTF8 in Windows Notepad. >>>> >>>> 2. The BOM (Byte-Order-Mark) is a special two-byte prefix that is usually >>>> used with UTF16 to determine whether the two bytes of each 16-bit code are >>>> big-endian or little-endian. Some products (including Windows Notepad) >>>> also put a BOM on the front of UTF8 streams. Some software is hostile to >>>> it being there, other software accepts it and recognizes the following >>>> code as UTF8 anyhow. You ran into a hostile case. >>>> >>>> Since you don't see the BOM (it is on front of the file but is not treated >>>> as a character), and you are on Windows, you need a text editor that >>>> doesn't produce them and also discards any that it encounters. >>>> >>>> I recommend an HTML editor. If you prefer text raw editing, I think jEdit >>>> will work for. It is a Java application, available on SourceForge. The >>>> Windows version of gedit will also save text in UTF8. That probably >>>> doesn't produce a BOM. (It is difficult to know if one is there or not >>>> without looking at the beginning of the file in a hex editor/viewer.) >>> My copy of Notepad++ (v5.9) has the following Encoding Menu options: >>> >>> Encode in ANSI >>> Encode in UTF-8 without BOM >>> Encode in UTF-8 >>> ... >>> Convert to ANSI >>> Convert to UTF-8 without BOM >>> Convert to UTF-8 >>> ... >> Thanks! I've added a note to >> http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/website-local.html > In the note you say "If you use Notepad on WIndows you have several options > for saving or converting to UTF. Choose the "UTF-8 without BOM" option" but > this is not an option in notepad (at least in mine) but in Notepad++ which is > not the windows one.
Oops, I misread. Let's think about this a bit Notepad is dangerous, but inevitable. There is a perl routine: read_text_file in https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/websites/cms/build/lib/ASF/Util.pm # utility for parsing txt files with headers in them # and passing the args along to a hashref (in 2nd arg) sub read_text_file { If that can be taught to handle the BOM then we won't care. (I'm removing my note.) Regards, Dave > Regards > Juan C. >> >> Regards, >> Dave >> >
