From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2011-02-15T14:16:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Cann't require UTF-8 files.

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Clifford Heath <no@spam.please.net> wrote:
>
> Right. Is there a good reason why Ruby can't just detect a UTF-8 BOM?

The use of a byte order mark is optional. Bit hard to detect what
isn't there, is it?

Here's a (short) discussion on auto-detecting Unicode:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2007/04/17/2158334.aspx

-- 
Phillip Gawlowski

Though the folk I have met,
(Ah, how soon!) they forget
When I've moved on to some other place,
There may be one or two,
When I've played and passed through,
Who'll remember my song or my face.