Re: ignoring BOM
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- Subject: Re: ignoring BOM
- From: Javier Bezos <noreply@...>
- Date: 2009年5月31日 19:58:29 +0200
Robert Raschke wrote:
> I've gone and hacked the bit in the lua code that is used to load code
> to ignore the silly BOM that M$ insists in introducing into text
> files.
Silly or not, it's a valid option in a UTF-8 file, according to
the Unicode standard:
In UTF-8, the BOM corresponds to the byte sequence <EF16 BB16 BF16>.
Although there are never any questions of byte order with UTF-8 text,
this sequence can serve as signature for UTF-8 encoded text where the
character set is unmarked.
So, a system claiming it can understand UTF-8 files must be able to
handle the BOM somehow (like ignoring it).
Javier
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