On 28/09/10 17:20, Rob Kendrick wrote: [...] > It serves no purpose for UTF-8 documents, and it's against convention to > add one. It causes all these pointless head aches when people who > insist on using broken tools complain that Lua's somehow at fault. > > It's not the first time it's come up. Entirely coincidentally, in another project I've had a bug report where using notepad to write Java manifests would fail because the BOM at the beginning of the file would be interpreted as a character, causing the initial Version: field's name to change. I had to add special code to detect them and strip them off. They're a problem *everywhere*. Just Say No to BOMs. -- ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ───── http://www.cowlark.com ───── │ │ life←{ ↑1 ⍵∨.^3 4=+/,¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1∘.⌽⊂⍵ } │ --- Conway's Game Of Life, in one line of APL
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