Re: UNICODE from a WinTel box
Re: UNICODE from a WinTel box
- Subject: Re: UNICODE from a WinTel box
- From: John Stiles <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 15:12:07 -0800
On Jan 4, 2006, at 3:11 PM, Ricky Sharp wrote:
On Jan 4, 2006, at 7:17 AM, Kenny Millar wrote:
It seems that you're missing the byte order mark (BOM)?
<http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#22>
Correct, the windows service doesn't include a BOM at the start of
the
string it sends out.
I think I'll need to talk to the developer of the Windows Service
and ask if
they can include a BOM one way or another.
Potential solutions:
(1) Developer of the Windows service uses a better encoding for
transportability such as UTF-8.
(2) As you mention, developer puts proper BOM so you know the
endianess
(3) It may be the case where the developer cannot include the BOM
(e.g. other clients of the service would start failing if the data
is prefixed with the BOM). Could you thus assume that if no BOM is
included that the data is of a particular endianess?
I'd probably just jump straight to #3... the first two solutions seem
like they have the potential for huge "ripple effects" to the
existing system, which could make new bugs for little benefit.
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