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 Message 1381 
 Michiel van der Vlist to mark lewis 
 Feature request 
 21 Feb 15 17:28:01 
 
Hello mark,

On Saturday February 21 2015 09:50, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

 ml> what would happen on big endian machines if they tried to compile a
 ml> UTF-8 nodelist without a BOM in it?

Nothing. In UTF-8 byte order does not apply. The BOM is reduced to a unique
byte sequence that marks a file as encoded in UTF-8.

 ml> granted, we're talking about UTF-8 and not UTF-16 or UTF-32 where it
 ml> might matter...

Exactly.

 ml> after some bit of time, yeah, i think i can agree with the request,
 ml> too...

Nice.. ;-)


Cheers, Michiel

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