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It would be nice if everything did, but some major pieces of software don't. For example, the Java I/O library: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bu
by jsankey 17y ago
It would be nice if everything did, but some major pieces of software don't. For example, the Java I/O library:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4508058 http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4508058
This is one of those problems that also won't be fixed to preserve (bug) compatibility.
- jrockway 17y agoOK, but most of the UNIX toolchain handles it just fine. Even cat knows not to output the BOM to the terminal :) Emacs and Perl are also fine. What more do you need?
- Daniel_Newby 17y agoDoes cat really? The BOM character just happens to also be the "zero-width non-breaking space", so it should be invisible when printed.
- rbanffy 17y agoDespite running under a form of Unix, my iPod is crippled in that I cannot run a "cat nasty_notepad_corrupted_file.txt | od" to check. Should be simple.