Doug Ewell scripsit:
> The Unix and Linux world is very
> opposed to the use of BOM in plain-text files, and if they feel that way
> about UTF-8 they probably feel the same about UTF-16.
I doubt it. The trouble with BOMizing is that it makes ASCII not a
subset of UTF-8, but ASCII cannot be a su
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, David Starner wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 09:00:17AM -0700, Doug Ewell wrote:
> > The Unix and Linux world is very
> > opposed to the use of BOM in plain-text files, and if they feel that way
> > about UTF-8 they probably feel the same about UTF-16.
The reason we're n
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 01:37:39PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Err, no. That's not the point, AFAIK. The point is that traditionally
> in UNIX there hasn't been any sort of "marker" or "tag" in the beginning,
> UNIX files being flat streams of bytes. The UNIX toolset has been built
> with
> Why? The problems with a BOM in UTF-8 have to do with it being an
> ASCII-compatible encoding.
Err, no. That's not the point, AFAIK. The point is that traditionally
in UNIX there hasn't been any sort of "marker" or "tag" in the beginning,
UNIX files being flat streams of bytes. The UNIX tool
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 09:00:17AM -0700, Doug Ewell wrote:
> The Unix and Linux world is very
> opposed to the use of BOM in plain-text files, and if they feel that way
> about UTF-8 they probably feel the same about UTF-16.
Why? The problems with a BOM in UTF-8 have to do with it being an
ASCII
Mark Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I must not *call* the sequence "UTF-16," since that term is
officially
>> reserved for BOM-marked text which can be either little- or
big-endian,
>> or BOMless text which must be big-endian.
>
> Yes, assuming the "BUT" clause applies to (b). That is, the u
below
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From: "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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