[darcs-devel] DARCS for Windows international development

[Samuel A. Falvo II]

One thing about gmail that I dislike is its insistance of replying
ONLY to an author, and not to everyone, when typing into the response
box.

Anyway...

On 5/31/07, Paul Schauble <Paul.Schauble at ticketmaster.com> wrote:
> Well, as long as we're being pedantic...
>
> It's a Byte Order Mark when it is the first two bytes in the file. It's
> a  ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE in any other position.
>
> In any case, in the Windows environment files without a BOM are rare.
> How do Linux system format Unicode files?


Most Linux programs use UTF-8 for Unicode files, because they're
(minimum) 50% smaller without compromising functionality.  AFAIK, they
do not use a BOM for identifying UTF-8 files because BOMs aren't
required (and indeed, meaningless) for UTF-8 files.

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Samuel A. Falvo II