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Re: Writing to file as UTF8 with BOM ?

At 5:17 PM +0200 10/26/06, Yvon Thoraval wrote:
i thought UTF-8 could be guessed (successfully) from the content of the file isn't it ?

Yvon, I'm afraid that's not true with respect to UTF16 as an example shows at <http://www.satimage-software/en/unicode_and_applescript.html>.

And the BOM would provide a handy way to tell a UTF8 from an ASCII. It's rather unfortunate that the UTF8 BOM was not widely adopted, because reading a UTF8 as ASCII is a bad experience which happens rather frequently, I think.

Emmanuel
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 >Re: Writing to file as UTF8 with BOM ? (From: Yvon Thoraval <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Writing to file as UTF8 with BOM ? (From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Writing to file as UTF8 with BOM ? (From: Yvon Thoraval <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Writing to file as UTF8 with BOM ? (From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Writing to file as UTF8 with BOM ? (From: Yvon Thoraval <email@hidden>)



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