4 ms·Wouldn't UTF-8 without a BOM look identical to ASCII for the "normal" characters?by DrStalker 15y agoWouldn't UTF-8 without a BOM look identical to ASCII for the "normal" characters?kgtm 15y agoYes.gcr 15y agoYes because UTF-8 doesn't have a BOM. Well, it's not recommended at least. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark#UTF-8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark#UTF-8