2011/11/2 Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutena...@normalesup.org>: >> OK. But could a PDF reader not use the same detection algorithm >> as (say) the Microsoft C# Compiler -- "No BOM : ASCII; BOM : UTF-8" ? > > Of course not; UTF-8 strings do not necessarily contain a BOM. Where > did you get that strange idea from? > BOM is already used in outlines but the application that creates PDF has to write BOM. As Arthur wrote, there are a lot of files in UTF-8 that do not have BOM. Even in XML BOM is only optional.
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