From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-24 15:55:23
Peter Dimov wrote:
> Martin Wille wrote:
[...]
> I doubt such a marker would be legal
>>in or would make sense for an UTF-8 encoded document.
>
>
> I believe that the BOM (byte order mark) is legal in all Unicode encodings,
> including UTF-8.
Apparently, it is legal. However, it doesn't carry any useful
information and not all software is able to deal with the BOM in UTF-8.
See http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#29
Regards,
m
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