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The BOM isn't exactly identifying information, but it's things like that (and encodings) that made me specify ASCII.
by mcherm 12y ago
The BOM isn't exactly identifying information, but it's things like that (and encodings) that made me specify ASCII.
- jarman 12y agoIn case of UTF8, BOM isn't information at all, it's always the same 3 bytes (endianness mark is meaningless on byte-based encoding). And being added by default Windows plain text editor, it's fingerprinting usefulness is rather limited.