[icu-support] Unicode, BOM signature and sequential and relative files

[Gisle F. <GFo...@ac...>]

Hi all,

I know that with line sequential files UNICODE demands a BOM signature =
to identify the encoding of the file. But, how about relative files, =
also known as binary sequential files? I presume one does not add a BOM =
signature here?

Also, for relative files, what is "best practise" with the utf8 and =
utf16 encodings? I am asking this in light of the fact that these =
encondings have a dynamic code point (byte) size while the byte size of =
a relative file is fixed. If I define a relative file of 30 code points, =
the encoding is utf16, is there any best practise for handling this?

Thank you for any info.

Gisle Forseth