From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Detecting BOM for UTF files
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:23:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jevfqqzijt.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B3F0F1D-FF17-11D7-BEA9-000393861220@sage.com> ( Sébastien Kirche's message of "Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:55:54 +0200")
Sébastien Kirche <sebastien.kirche@sage.com> writes:
> Hi,
> I recently had to switch my .emacs to UTF-8 encoding, because I was
> annoyed with proper encoding of french acccents between my home Emacs (win
> + linux) and my work Emacs (Mac OS X).
>
> I saw then that Emacs cannot recognize automagically the UTF format of my
> .emacs when reloading it.
> I seen that there is neither BOM (byte order mark) at the beginning, nor
> adding one helps.
??? UTF-8 does not need a BOM, it's an 8-bit encoding.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-15 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-15 13:55 Detecting BOM for UTF files Sébastien Kirche
2003-10-15 14:23 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2003-10-15 14:58 ` Sébastien Kirche
2003-10-15 15:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-10-15 15:20 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
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