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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: UTF-8 in strings - a bug?
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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...


-- Georg