From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: UTF-8 in strings - a bug?
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 08:29:50 +0200
Date: 2004-05-10T08:29:50+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3878175.nfHeE0N58X@linux1.krischik.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c7l7e7$pdn$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de
Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> : The UTF-X encodings can start with a BOM "Byte-order mark".
>
> However, systems are allowed to define protocols which may
> restrict the use of a BOM in case of UTF-8 (require/forbid).
> A #!/shell script is an example.
>
> A BOM is said to be useful to distinguish a UTF-8 Unicode file
> from a file using another 8bit encoding. Though I wonder how by
> the absence of the Unicode BOM they think a program can find
> out which of the other encodings has been used...
XML/Ada does some guessing on the the usual beginning of an xml file.
Apart from that I guess they can't..
With Regards
Martin
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-05 22:12 UTF-8 in strings - a bug? Björn Persson
2004-05-05 23:31 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-05-06 8:34 ` Björn Persson
2004-05-06 9:25 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-06 17:13 ` Björn Persson
2004-05-06 18:24 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-07 23:32 ` Björn Persson
2004-05-08 6:38 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-08 7:44 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-05-08 11:06 ` Björn Persson
2004-05-08 16:25 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-09 12:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-05-10 6:29 ` Martin Krischik [this message]
2004-05-08 12:10 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-05-06 9:06 ` David Starner
2004-05-06 17:36 ` Björn Persson
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