[Haskell-cafe] Encoding of Haskell source files

[Tako Schotanus]

That's not what the official unicode site says in its FAQ:
http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#bom4 and
http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#bom<http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#bom4>
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Cheers,
-Tako


On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 15:18, malcolm.wallace <malcolm.wallace at me.com>wrote:

> BOM is not part of UTF8, because UTF8 is byte-oriented.  But applications
> should be prepared to read and discard it, because some applications
> erroneously generate it.
>
>
> Regards,
>     Malcolm
>
>
> On 04 Apr, 2011,at 02:09 PM, Antoine Latter <aslatter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Max Bolingbroke
> <batterseapower at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4 April 2011 11:34, Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fischer at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> >> If there's only a single encoding recognised, UTF-8 surely should be the
> >> one (though perhaps Windows users might disagree, iirc, Windows uses
> UCS2
> >> as standard encoding).
> >
> > Windows APIs use UTF-16, but the encoding of files (which is the
> > relevant point here) is almost uniformly UTF-8 - though of course you
> > can find legacy apps making other choices.
> >
>
> Would we need to specifically allow for a Windows-style leading BOM in
> UTF-8 documents? I can never remember if it is truly a part of UTF-8
> or not.
>
> > Cheers,
> > Max
> >
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