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Re: [XOM-interest] Having a really bad time, and I fear it's all line endings

From: Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
To: Andrew Thompson <lordpixel AT mac.com>
Cc: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Having a really bad time, and I fear it's all line endings
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 15:10:01 -0500

BOMs in UTF-8 are very flaky. They're really not legal, but were retconned into Unicode to support Microsoft software that didn't follow the standard. I suspect your underlying parser doesn't like UTF-8 files with BOMs. For maximum comptiability you should not put a BOM in UTF-8 files, only UTF-16 files.

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[XOM-interest] Having a really bad time, and I fear it's all line endings, Andrew Thompson, 03/06/2005
- Re: [XOM-interest] Having a really bad time, and I fear it's all line endings, Elliotte Harold, 03/06/2005
  - Re: [XOM-interest] Having a really bad time, and I fear it's all line endings, Andrew Thompson, 03/06/2005
    - Re: [XOM-interest] Having a really bad time, and I fear it's all line endings, John Cowan, 03/06/2005
    - Re: [XOM-interest] Having a really bad time, and I fear it's all line endings, Andrew Thompson, 03/06/2005
      - Re: [XOM-interest] Having a really bad time, and I fear it's all line endings, Elliotte Harold, 03/06/2005
        
        Re: [XOM-interest] Having a really bad time, and I fear it's all line endings, Steve Loughran, 03/06/2005
    - Re: [XOM-interest] Having a really bad time, and I fear it's all line endings, Elliotte Harold, 03/06/2005
    - Re: [XOM-interest] Having a really bad time, and I fear it's all line endings, Elliotte Harold, 03/06/2005
    - Re: [XOM-interest] Having a really bad time, and I fear it's all line endings, Elliotte Harold, 03/06/2005
    - RE: [XOM-interest] Having a really bad time, and I fear it's all line endings, Michael Kay, 03/06/2005