On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 18:53:34 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
>
> Op 13-07-2020 om 01:56 schreef Nils König:
> > Basically, I imagined this just like:
> >
> >> If nano were to handle a BOM properly, it must remove a BOM whenever
> >> a file is read, and add it back when it is written. But
Op 13-07-2020 om 01:56 schreef Nils König:
> Basically, I imagined this just like:
>
>> If nano were to handle a BOM properly, it must remove a BOM whenever
>> a file is read, and add it back when it is written. But that would
>> make it impossible to delete an unwanted BOM with a simple
On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 20:04:31 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Op 12-07-2020 om 16:26 schreef Nils König:
> > FWIW I would have expected leading BOM/NoBOM to be an option when saving
> > with
> > ^O (like DOS/Mac-Format) and by default keep status quo.
>
> No-no-no, horrible! The user
Op 12-07-2020 om 16:26 schreef Nils König:
> I agree, that a UTF8-BOM is usually not necessary.
In UTF-8 a BOM is never necessary. It's just that the annoying
fools at Microsoft have made their software so that things don't
work when there is *no* BOM. Christ... how stupid can they be?
> With
Hello Benno,
thanks for your quick reply.
On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 13:15:41 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Ideally, a UTF-8 file should not contain a Byte Order Mark. What if
> I concatenate several files together? Then the result might contain
> BOMs embedded in the text.
>
> As far as I
Hello Nils,
Op 11-07-2020 om 21:56 schreef Nils König:
> when editing a UTF8 file in nano that contains a BOM (efbbbf) and inserting a
> character at the beginning, the BOM bytes will move after the inserted
> character. This can lead to breakages when such a file is being parsed by a
>
Package: nano
Version: 3.2-3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
when editing a UTF8 file in nano that contains a BOM (efbbbf) and inserting a
character at the beginning, the BOM bytes will move after the inserted
character. This can lead to breakages when such a file is being parsed by a
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