Re: BOM & Unicode editors

At 04:55 PM 5/9/00 -0700, Saba Sundaramurthy wrote:
>     Is this something all editors that save files in Unicode or UTF-8 are
>required to do? Can I depend on the presence of this marker in my code?

No, it's not a requirement, but it's a convention followed by quite a few 
tools,
because otherwise it's harder to use the same .txt extension for both ASCII and
Unicode (and also it helps to mark the byte order, of course).

I would recommend that you look for it in your code, if you plan to read UTF-16
files. At the minimum you need to be prepared for its presence. But you may
possibly encounter some un-marked UTF-16. There are some quite strong 
heuristics that one can follow to detect Unicode without a BOM, but a 
signature like this is more reliable.

A./