skyjake skyjake at dengine.net
Wed Jul 14 06:34:08 BST 2021
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On 14. Jul 21, at 2.30, Jason McBrayer <jmcbray at carcosa.net> wrote:
The BOM at the start of the file is invalid for UTF-8 documents. I
*think* it's required for UTF-16, but I may be wrong and I'm too tired
to look it up.
BOM is not invalid for UTF-8, although it has limited usefulness:
UTF-8 can contain a BOM. However, it makes no difference as to the endianness of the byte stream. UTF-8 always has the same byte order. An initial BOM is only used as a signature — an indication that an otherwise unmarked text file is in UTF-8.
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https://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#bom1
I recommend this FAQ to anyone wondering about what to do with BOMs, there's plenty of good info.
--jaakko