On 26 June 2017 at 15:09, Eric Grange <egra...@glscene.org> wrote: > Alas, there is no end in sight to the pain for the Unicode decision to not > make the BOM compulsory for UTF-8. >
UTF-8 is byte oriented. The very concept of byte order is nonsense in this context as there is no multi-byte storage primitives to worry about. Making it optional or non-necessary basically made every single text file > ambiguous > Easily solved by never including a superflous BOM in UTF-8 text. > But now, more than 20 years later, UTF-8 storage is still a mess, with no > end in sight :/ > s/a mess/the one bastion of sanity in a sea of codepage madness/ -Rowan _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
