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Re: [Json] BOMs (Was: Re: JSON: remove gap between Ecma-404 and IETF draft)

2013-11-18 15:02:15
----- Original Message From: "John Cowan"

Pete Cordell scripsit:

Not useless if you're trying to tell the difference between a hand
editted Windows cp-1252 (or whatever it's called) encoded text file
and a UTF-8 encoded text file.

In principle you cannot tell, but in practice it's possible to discriminate
betwen the two with extremely high reliability.


John,

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?

If the latter, do the relevant tools take the time to distinguish the 2 without BOMs?

Thanks,

Pete Cordell
Codalogic Ltd
C++ tools for C++ programmers, http://codalogic.com
Read & write XML in C++, http://www.xml2cpp.com