-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mike Hearn wrote: > On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:27:07 -0400, Nicolas De Rico wrote: >> I would like to compile files created on Windows and encoded in >> "Unicode" (UTF-8 or UTF-16). Microsoft puts a little header at the >> beginning of files to indicate that they are UTF-16, UTF-8, etc. I >> believe that this header is standard unicode btw, not an extension! > > Are you thinking of the byte order mark (BOM)? If so then this is a quirk > of UTF-16 and is a Windows thing that many apps can't handle correctly ... > UTF-8 should not have any headers at all and GCC should handle them fine. > Try using some text editor to check it really is UTF-8.
Windows Notepad still inserts a BOM (0xEF 0xBB 0xBF) at the beginning of files encoded with UTF-8. See: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/getwr/steps/wrg_unicode.mspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark Ranjit. - -- Ranjit Mathew Email: rmathew AT gmail DOT com Bangalore, INDIA. Web: http://rmathew.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFETfs0Yb1hx2wRS48RAkvmAKCae/o9vD3doaDKD1VPOSUlSlhRjACdGqv0 nD0cMiSvZLu9TfmIf/BUuIU= =lZaM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
