On 8/1/07, Peter Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/1/07, Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/1/07, Peter Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I do not think that filter chains will help here as they > > > operate on Readers and not on input streams. > > > > Actually, that may be why it "should" work. Java knows about optional > > BOMs and does the right thing, as long as you tell it that the > > encoding is UTF-16. > > The encoding is not UTF-16, it is UTF-8. Having a BOM in UTF-8 > makes no sense, as a byte cannot be byte ordered. However, it > is allowed by the UTF standard as an optional feature. > see: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28049 and > http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4508058
Hmmm, OK. I missed the part where Alex wrote that he was using UTF-8 with BOM, instead of UTF-16. I assumed the latter, since indeed I didn't know one could put a BOM with UTF-8 data! (useless indeed). --DD --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
