* byte order marks in utf-8 (old)
@ 2005-12-28 12:48 Taco Hoekwater
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From: Taco Hoekwater @ 2005-12-28 12:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi,
A long time ago, Hans wrote:
> Patrick Gundlach wrote:
>
>> are you sure that your scite does not use utf-16 and puts the BOM (byte
>> order mark) there?
>
> scite indeed does this (kind of annoying)
It is the BOM, in utf-8 file encoding. A bit pointless (utf-8 is
based on opcodes instead of byte ordering), but is allowed by the
unicode specification.
> context can handle that for xml files
>
> i can consider handling it automatically (i.e. when BOM before first start-stop,
> then assume utf-8)
It is a safe bet that any document that starts with the three bytes
0xEF 0xBB 0xBF
is encoded as UTF-8, esp. if it is supposed to be text input.
Cheers,
Taco
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