On 19-Apr-07, at 12:17 PM, Theodore H. Smith wrote:
> That's one way, yes. It's still more to remember. You need to
> remember a "magic number".
>
> Also, what if the data is UTF-16? Or UTF-16LE or UTF-16BE? How will
> his binary stream handle that?
>
> ElfData manages all that via the .BOM function. You don't need to
> remember anything, other than to call .BOM. It's very simple.
You write out the BOM using code that gets the Encoding and write out
the right BOM for that encoding
Something like
dim te as TextEncoding
te = Encoding(myData)
bs te.Chr(&hFEFF)
It's not as syntactically easy to write as your example but it's not
rocket surgery either and doesn't require a plugin.
Some people don't like to use plugins if they can avoid them.
Just making sure people know about alternatives where they exist
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