From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e4abd14106db0029 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!newsfeed.utanet.at!newsfeed01.chello.at!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: Ada 2012 and Unicode package (UTF-nn encodings handling) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:21:40 +0200 Message-ID: <18eeiygku1nbd.1b6dj3nhx908w.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Aug 2010 08:21:36 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 2b88dc12.newsspool4.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=^17=cCMh9=4gP]QSEBQ^d44IUK[ On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:38:20 +0200, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote: > I could not avoid two questions: why no UTF-32 ? Is there anybody who would ever use it? > Quote: > http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html >> A: A byte order mark (BOM) consists of the character code U+FEFF at the >> beginning of a data stream > > This is a FAQ at Unicode.org; but all references (Unicode PDF files, XML > reference, HTTML reference) all says the same. That is all OS's business, how does it handle the content. So if it belongs anywhere then to stream I/O + directories. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de