Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8

[Patrick Drechsler <patrick@pdrechsler.de>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:

> Patrick Drechsler writes:
>
>  > I second the opinion that it would be nice to have the option to
>  > hide (or remove) the BOM while editing the file in Emacs and
>  > reinserting it (if it was removed) when done editing.
>
> I believe that there is a utf-8-signature or similarly named coding
> system which does this.  (It's called utf-8-bom in XEmacs but IIRC
> Emacs uses the more accurate name, since UTF-8 is of course always
> bigendian.)

Thanks for the feedback Stephen.

I am not able to find this coding system by searching through the list
of possible coding systems (describe-coding-system -> TAB). The only
appearances of the string "sig" are all utf-16 related (the string "bom"
did not return any results either):

,----
| 4 matches for "sig" in buffer: *Completions*
|     386:utf-16be-with-signature 	utf-16be-with-signature-dos
|     387:utf-16be-with-signature-mac 	utf-16be-with-signature-unix
|     390:utf-16le-with-signature 	utf-16le-with-signature-dos
|     391:utf-16le-with-signature-mac 	utf-16le-with-signature-unix
`----

> You can use the auto-coding-alist (or something like that) to ensure
> that files with certain names always get the strip-BOM-on-input,
> prepend-BOM-on-output behavior.

Cheers,

Patrick