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

> 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>).
>
>
Well, actually there is. From the same page,

Some protocols allow optional BOMs in the case of untagged text. In those
cases,

   -

   Where a text data stream is known to be plain text, but of unknown
   encoding, BOM can be used as a signature. If there is no BOM, the encoding
   could be anything.

That is usually the case of plain-text files, such as program code source
-> You do not know what should be used as encoding.

Gert

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Received on 2010-02-17 14:53:35 CET