On Jun 27, 2017 12:13 AM, "Rowan Worth" <row...@dug.com> wrote:
I'm sure I've simplified things with this description - have I missed something crucial? Is the BOM argument about future proofing? Are we worried about EBCDIC? Is my perspective too anglo-centric? The original issue was two of the largest companies in the world output the Byte Encoding Mark(TM)(Patent Pending) (or BOM) at the beginning of UTF-8 encoded text streams, and it would be friendly for the SQLite3 shell to skip it or use it for encoding identification in at least some cases. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users