RE: BOM & Unicode editors

	UTF-8 characters may expand to any number of bytes (up to 6 for
UCS-4), I don't think byte order is important since the sequence will be
written out one byte at a time in the correct order.

    As confirmed by Michka, the BOM is placed in UTF-8 files only as a
'magic cookie'.

Saba


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert A. Rosenberg [mailto:rarpsl@flashcom.net]
> At 10:43 AM 05/10/2000 +0200, Chris Lilley wrote:
> >This is all fine and well for UTF-16, but what about UTF-8 ? 
> why does the
> >byte order matter?
> 
> The byte-order is still important since it controls what 
> UTF-8 codes get 
> emitted for the same input codepoint. Just as you need to 
> know which order 
> to save the two bytes of a UTF-16 character, you need to know 
> what order to 
> assemble the two bytes that get created by expanding a UTF-8 sequence.
>