[darcs-devel] DARCS for Windows international development

[Paul Schauble]

-----Original Message-----
From: Samuel A. Falvo II [mailto:sam.falvo at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 2:47 PM
To: Paul Schauble
Cc: David Roundy; darcs-devel at darcs.net
Subject: Re: [darcs-devel] DARCS for Windows international development

On 5/30/07, Paul Schauble <Paul.Schauble at ticketmaster.com> wrote:
> On Windows, Unicode files, both UTF-8 and UTF-16LE, will contain a

What good is a BOM in UTF-8?  I thought the layout for UTF-8 is always
the same, regardless of machine endianness?

Or, does it exist only to tell a reader that it actually _is_ a UTF-x
file?

Thanks.

-- 
Samuel A. Falvo II

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That last is exactly correct. The Byte Order Mark also identifies the
file as Unicode. It provides a unique signature for UTF-8, UTF-16LE, and
UTF-16BE files.

    ++PLS