On 20/10/09 03:22, bill lam wrote:
>
> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>> @bill lam: I am not at all convinced that "everyone on Linux uses UTF-8"
>> and also not that "no one uses it with a BOM". These assertions sound to
>> me like wishful thinking, overgeneralizations, and the same sort of
>
> There are of course some who intentionally use utf8 with bom in linux,
> you yourself might already an example. But sooner or later they will
> hit the wall.
>
What makes you think so? On the contrary, I believe that use of a BOM
with any Unicode text (including UTF-8) will become more frequent as
conformant applications become the rule rather than the exception.
On attentively reading that Unicode FAQ, I notice that the use of a BOM
as a "signature" that Unicode (including UTF-8) is being used, is
mentioned repeatedly; that problems issue from using a BOM with programs
which don't know Unicode at all but assume ASCII or ISO-87859-1
(including bash and maybe gcc), that XML or HTML parsers "don't (yet)
all" understand a BOM at the start of a file -- but in my experience
modern ones do, including all the browsers I use.
Best regards,
Tony.
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