Re: utf-8 description (specify to use utf-8 without BOM)

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:

> --- Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 23:11, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> > >
> > > gnuplot only accepts utf-8 without the BOM (Byte Oder Mark)
> > > but not that with the BOM.
> > >
> > > I think it is better to mention it in a proper position
> > > �in the manual
> >
> > Or even better: to fix the source code :)

I'm not sure I'd call this a "fix". Wikipedia says of the BOM in
UTF-8:

"While Unicode standard allows BOM in UTF-8, it does not require
or recommend it. Byte order has no meaning in UTF-8 so a BOM only
serves to identify a text stream or file as UTF-8 or that it was
converted from another format that has a BOM."

Some MS Windows applications add these redundant bytes to UTF-8
files but "proper" UTF-8 gets by fine without them.

Allin Cottrell