Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> Jarkko Hietaniemi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> 
>>Though I must say that personally I would avoid using BOM with UTF-8:
>>there is little reason to use a byte order mark with UTF-8 since UTF-8
>>is byte order independent.
> 
> True. But then there is this pesky little issue: do we have a UTF-8
> file or a file in an 8-bit charset. And the way they do it on Windows

Personally I prefer bits.

> is by BOM, like it or not...

Not.  Any other questions? :-)

> Thanks for the update on the possibly upcoming patches!

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