On 17.01.2011 23:19, carlo wrote:
Is it true UTF-8 does not have any "big-endian/little-endian" issue because of its encoding method? And if it is true, why Mark (and everyone does) writes about UTF-8 with and without BOM some chapters later? What would be the BOM purpose then?
Can't answer your other questions, but the UTF-8 BOM is simply a marker saying "This is a UTF-8 text file, not an ASCII text file"
If I'm not wrong, this was a Microsoft invention and surely one of their brightest ideas. I really wish, that this had been done for ANSI some decades ago. Determining the encoding for text files is hard to impossible because such a mark was never introduced.
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