From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2006-11-13T02:05:54+09:00 Subject: Re: Saving an UTF-8 file On 11/12/06, David Vallner wrote: > Austin Ziegler wrote: > > On 11/12/06, David Vallner wrote: > >> Paul Lutus wrote: > >> > It isn't something you can specify in a > >> > plain-text file. > >> Byte order mark? > > Not meaningful in UTF-8, since it's all a defined series of bytes > > (it's always the same order on all platforms). > Yes, but it can be used as a "this file is UTF-8" marker by convention. > And cause problems in software that doesn't recognize the convention, > for added hilarity. It's a bad convention, because it adds meaningless bytes to the beginning of a file. I'm not saying that an unadorned document is better, but better to do something that has actual meaning than doing a pointless BOM. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * http://www.halostatue.ca/ * austin@halostatue.ca * http://www.halostatue.ca/feed/ * austin@zieglers.ca