On 14 Nov 2005, at 14:43 , Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
UTF-8 no BOM.
BOM?
Byte Order Mark. UTF-8 file snormally have characters at the
beginning of the file that identify it as utf-8, these characters
will confuse anything expecting 7 bit data, so you save the UTF-8
file without the BOM.
Why? Because then ISO-8859-1 files 'just work' as
they are.
Oouuuch. Let me tell you, 8859-1 is **NOT** a subset of utf-8! In
fact,
switching from 8859-1 to utf-8 is a pain and a half. If you don't know
why, you've obviously only ever used the bottom half of 8859-1.
Yeah, I misspoke. ASCII files 'just work'.
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