24 Nov
2005
24 Nov
'05
8:55 p.m.
Peter Dimov wrote:
Martin Wille wrote:
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I doubt such a marker would be legal
in or would make sense for an UTF-8 encoded document.
I believe that the BOM (byte order mark) is legal in all Unicode encodings, including UTF-8.
Apparently, it is legal. However, it doesn't carry any useful information and not all software is able to deal with the BOM in UTF-8. See http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#29 Regards, m Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com