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.
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