From: "Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner" <ed.odanow@...>
Date: 2007-10-25T16:33:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Hopefully Complete List of Possible Encoding Specifications - Existing Ones

murphy schrieb:
> Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>> Currently, I am not going to add magic BOM support.  Not for 1.9.1 at
>> least.  I hate BOMs.  They are one of the two abominable things from
>> Unicode.  The other is UTF-16, especially as external encoding.
> somehow, I don't like BOM, too. but it shouldn't be hard to implement
> support for it in a special library, say "gem install unicode-bom" or
> something. if I remember correctly, WoN��Do already has presented a
> library for BOM recognition in the German Ruby forum. that way, we could
> make everybody happy :)

AchDuMeinLieberMeinVater...(german expression for being surprised and shocked).

I build it approx. two years ago for data analysis with the idea to see, what 
the the first bytes of a text can say about a possible Unicode encoding. If 
someone wants to use it now, the code with unfortunately german comments is in 
the german Ruby-Forum (http://forum.ruby-portal.de/viewtopic.php?t=1503).

I will change it a little bit, comment it in English, and put it together with 
the UTF-8/16/32-Recognizers as a gem (never did it before) and a zip file. Then 
I try to put it as a new project "UTFtests" in RubyForge - ist this O.K.?

One final question - because there should be a license, I used "lgpl". Is this 
O.K., or should I use another one?

Wolfgang N��dasi-Donner