Steven Atreju wrote:
If Unicode *defines* that the so-called BOM is in fact a Unicode- indicating tag that MUST be present,
But Unicode does not define that.
I know that, in Germany, many, many small libraries become closed because there is not enough money available to keep up with the digital race, and even the greater *do* have problems to stay in touch!
People like to complain about the BOM, but no libraries are shutting down because of it. "Keeping up with the digital race" isn't about handling two or three bytes at the beginning of a text file, in a way that has been defined for two decades. It's about technologies and standards and platforms and formats that change incompatibly every few years.
-- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA http://www.ewellic.org | @DougEwell
