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

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 03:12, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>
> 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.

However ... this has to be read as: gnuplot is not required to
*output* files with BOM (and thus doesn't need to be fixed to create
BOM marks in output), but it should better support them when *opening*
external files. Even if the marks are not required by the standard,
they are still there. Even worse ... from what some people here say
they are even there by default in some standard Windows tools.

Mojca

(But once again: I don't know the source good enough, so I have no
idea how difficult it would be to fix that particular behaviour.)