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[Daniel Keep]

Thomas Kuehne wrote:
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> Daniel Keep schrieb am 2007-01-07:
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>>Thomas Kuehne wrote:
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>>>Daniel Keep schrieb am 2007-01-07:
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>>>>http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DanielKeep/TextInD
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>>>The following sentence is incorrect:
>>>#
>>># In fact, it does, but there's a teensy problem that some Unicode
>>># 'enabled' editors have: they forget the Byte Order Mark.
>>>#
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>>>D doesn't require BOM and the presents of BOMs is application/system
>>>defined (-> Unicode.org). More often than not the user simply used the
>>>"save as text" feature. Especially on MSWindows most editors use some
>>>installation dependent codepage instead of UTF if not ask explicitly to
>>>store the text as Unicode.
>>>
>>>The only situation were a BOM is required is documented here:
>>>http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=430
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>>Thanks for the heads up.  Is this accurate?
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> Yes, appart from this section:
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>>  The Byte Order Mark (or BOM) is a special character sequence at the 
>>beginning of any UTF text file that tells the application which UTF 
>>encoding is being used, and in some cases what the byte order is (ie: 
>>Little Endian/Big Endian.)
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> Any UTF text file _may_ start with a BOM. On Windows system the
> convention is to start with a BOM, on *nix system the convention is to
> start without a BOM.
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> Thomas
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Thanks for the input.  The wiki's been updated.

	-- Daniel