Pete Cordell scripsit:
Do you mean that the presence of a UTF-8 BOF sequence doesn't prove
that it's not Windows cp-1252 or do you mean you can tell apart a
UTF-8 and cp-1252 file without BOMs?
I meant the latter, but the former is true, too. A plain text document
beginning "" in Windows-1252 will appear to begin with an 8-BOM
in the absence of out of band information.
If the latter, do the relevant tools take the time to distinguish
the 2 without BOMs?
Some tools do, some don't. The IRC client I use, XChat, attempts to
convert input as UTF-8, and if that fails, converts it as Latin-1.
I have not yet seen it produce mojibake.
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