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 Message 1374 
 Wilfred van Velzen to Michiel van der Vlist 
 Re: Feature request 
 21 Feb 15 15:54:29 
 
Hi,

On 2015-02-21 15:19:09, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "Feature request":

 MvdV>>> Remove any UTF-8 Byte Order Mark (BOM).

 WV>> Why should it be an option? Is there a situation where you want to
 WV>> keep the BOM?

 MvdV> I didn't consider that. No, I can't think of a reason why I'd want to
keep
 MvdV> a BOM.

 MvdV> However... Predicting the future is not one of my strong points. A good
 MvdV> reason may come up some day. I prefer not to close down options too
soon.
 MvdV> Right now, now that we have an active developer it is little extra work
to
 MvdV> make it an option. The code for generating options is there. It will
just
 MvdV> be another if/then in the code.

Maybe you want to have a BOM as the first few bytes of the produced nodelist
by makenl (or not), so that could be an option. But keeping them in the middle
of the file breaks the standard, so I can't imagine why that would be usefull,
even in the future. But it's up to the developper. ;)

Bye, Wilfred.


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