You can remove a per-file prefix, certainly. This would make sense. But if you do not, what is the harm of a character that you cannot see and which does not even have width or cause line breaking behavior? Realistically, what would the problem be?
MichKa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefan Persson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 4:14 AM Subject: Several BOMs in the same file > Hi! > > Let's say that I have two files, namely file1 & file2, in any Unicode > encoding, both starting with a BOM, and I compile them into one by using > > cat file1 file2 > file3 > > in Unix or > > copy file1 + file2 file3 > > in MS-DOS, file3 will have the following contents: > > BOM > contents from file1 > BOM > contents from file2 > > Is this in accordance with the Unicode standard, or do I have to remove > the second BOM? > > Stefan > > >
