On Sat, 24 Jun 2017, Russ Allbery wrote: > Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > > I did a bit more research, and apparently this approach has become more > > blessed again. I'm glad I looked it up! As of Unicode 5.0, the
... > Okay, I experimented with this, but unfortunately less displays the BOM at > the start of the file as a very ugly reverse-video <U+FEFF> at the top of > the screen. An alternative would be to just use .8txt, .u8txt or some other extension for UTF-8 text files that is not ".txt". This also addresses the mix of UTF-8 and unknown charset .txt files in our web trees, the difficulty of configuring charsets out-of-band across a mirror network, etc. An imperfect world asks for imperfect solutions :-( All of them will have drawbacks. -- Henrique Holschuh
