Re: Problem with UTF-8-files and creating and appliying patches

Carsten Schuette schrieb:
>
>> What about removing the BOM in the first place? You don't need a BOM for
>> UTF-8 and it can lead to various problems (like the one you're reporting).
>
> Well, I have about 7.000 files (all created with Visual Studio 2008),
> which all have the BOM. And whenever I open and save the file with
> Visual Studio, the BOM might be back. I am also not sure how the BOM
> will affect the encoding, maybe all my umlauts are lost?
>
> Why is the BOM a problem? I think it's a bug that TortoiseMerge does
> not handle the BOM correctly when applying a patch.

While you might be correct about TortoiseMerge and BOM, UTF-8 has a
defined byte-order, so there is no need for a BOM (see
<http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#bom5>).

I don't know anything about Visual Studio, but this might help you
removing the BOM:
<http://distilledb.com/blog/archives/date/2009/03/07/removing-unwanted-unicode-encodings.page>

Felix

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