Re: [XeTeX] Use of BOM in XeTeX and TeXworks

2019-07-15 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 11:05:46 + "Taylor, P" wrote: > Two related questions, the second dependent on the answer to the > first. > > 1. Is XeTeX happy with a BOM in UTF-8 files Nowadays, usage of BOM for UTF-8 is neither required nor recommended. > 2. Could TeXworks be enhanced to (a)

Re: [XeTeX] [texworks] Use of BOM in XeTeX and TeXworks

2019-07-15 Thread Reinhard Kotucha
On 2019-07-15 at 21:43:50 +0200, Manfred Lotz wrote: > Nowadays, usage of BOM for UTF-8 is neither required nor recommended. Hi Manfred, UTF-8 BOMs were never required. UTF-8 is a prefix encoding and was designed to be able to synchronize with a character stream which has no concept of "beginni