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It's useful to tell a text editor "This is UTF-8, not Windows-1252 or ISO-8859-1 or whatever you might be used to".
by adiabatty 9y ago
It's useful to tell a text editor "This is UTF-8, not Windows-1252 or ISO-8859-1 or whatever you might be used to".
- mjevans 9y agoNo, just do 8-bit clean, don't SCREW with the encoding if you weren't asked to.
- gnud 9y agoAn editor can't "just do 8-bit clean", it has to display the characters. The same bytes will sometimes be displayed differently in utf-8 and (e.g.) ISO-8859-1. I'm not sure if a BOM is a good way to handle it, but saying 'just do 8-bit clean' doesn't work when you're displaying or printing the characters for humans to understand.