[darcs-devel] DARCS for Windows international development

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:46:53PM -0700, Samuel A. Falvo II wrote:
> 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?

Right, the BOM is abused as a file signature.

Stefan