From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, stephen@xemacs.org,
patrick@pdrechsler.de, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 09:56:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <482FEF32.2080300@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u7idsi9jn.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I'm not sure you are barking the right tree. AFAIK, Microsoft doesn't
> use UTF-8 at all, they use UTF-16 (where a BOM is generally
> necessary).
>
What Miles is talking about is certain Microsoft software (including
their XML library), which when saving to UTF-8 writes a UTF-8 encoded
0xFEFF at the start of the file. Its probably caused by first encoding
in UTF-16 then transcoding to UTF-8.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-18 8:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-17 12:31 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8 Patrick Drechsler
2008-05-17 14:13 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-17 16:57 ` Patrick Drechsler
2008-05-17 20:38 ` Mark A. Hershberger
2008-05-21 22:20 ` Patrick Drechsler
2008-05-21 22:37 ` Patrick Drechsler
2008-05-22 1:33 ` Mark A. Hershberger
2008-05-22 14:43 ` Tom Tromey
2008-05-22 21:24 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-22 4:17 ` tomas
2008-05-22 4:33 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-22 8:28 ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-27 8:22 ` tomas
2008-05-22 17:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-23 9:05 ` tomas
2008-05-23 21:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-27 8:20 ` tomas
2008-05-18 2:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-18 2:30 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-18 3:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-18 4:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-18 8:56 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2008-05-18 11:00 ` Patrick Drechsler
2008-05-19 3:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-19 14:32 ` Patrick Drechsler
2008-05-19 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-20 15:16 ` Patrick Drechsler
2008-05-18 15:19 ` joakim
2008-05-18 4:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-18 5:40 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-18 9:14 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-19 3:05 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-18 23:40 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-19 20:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-19 20:57 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-19 23:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-20 7:13 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-30 2:47 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-05-30 3:44 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-30 3:59 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-05-19 6:32 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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