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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: UTF-8 in strings - a bug?
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 08:29:50 +0200
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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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