Hello Philippe,
On 2012/07/18 3:37, Philippe Verdy wrote:
2012/7/17 Julian Bradfield<[email protected]>:
On 2012-07-16, Philippe Verdy<[email protected]> wrote:
I am also convinced that even Shell interpreters on Linux/Unix should
recognize and accept the leading BOM before the hash/bang starting
line (which is commonly used for filetype identification and runtime
The kernel doesn't know or care about character sets. It has a little
knowledge of ASCII (or possibly EBCDIC) hardwired, but otherwise it deals
with 8-bit bytes. It has no concept of "text file".
Yes I know. But most tools and script should know on which type of
file they are operating on. Unfortunately the tools are as well
agnostic and just rely on things that do not pass the transport
protocols. Such as filename conventions.
Just writing that you are convinced about something a shell should do
doesn't change anything. Maybe you can create a patch (or a few patches,
because there quite a few tools out there in the Linux/Unix world) and
see if you can convince the respective maintainers that it's indeed a
good idea.
[As others with some amount of Linux/Unix background, I strongly doubt
that for Linux/Unix, the BOM is a good idea.]
Regards, Martin.
