- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 10:43:46 +0200
- To: Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>
- CC: Saba Sundaramurthy <ssundaramurthy@verisign.com>, mozilla-i18n@mozilla.org, www-international@w3.org, i18n-prog@acoin.com
Asmus Freytag wrote: > > 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). This is all fine and well for UTF-16, but what about UTF-8 ? why does the byte order matter? > I would recommend that you look for it in your code, if you plan to read UTF-16 > files. And for UTF-8 files? -- Chris
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