> Plain text is friendly towards developers. But it’s neither interop-friendly nor user friendly. Kind of got off track here. You can process a lot of formats

> Plain text is friendly towards developers. But it’s neither interop-friendly nor user friendly. Kind of got off track here. You can process a lot of formats as text (html, css, xml, etc). So a BOM there is unnecessary and sometimes detrimental. On the unix side there are a lot of text utilities that do useful things that you can do on these formats. That's probably why BOMs are non existent there. > MS can’t change the compiler because backward compatibility. You care to tell MS that? Every single time I've done a major VS upgrade my code had to be changed because something that was valid before stopped being valid. > And there aren’t any. If you can't see any benefit of using UTF-8 then I'm done debating with you.