July 1, 2008
10:27 a.m.
On Jul 1, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Andy McDonald wrote:
I'm in complete agreement that UTF-8 without BOM is the 'correct' solution.
It's worth pointing out that MS Notepad correctly detects and renders UTF-8/no BOM as UTF-8; there's just no way to stop it from writing a BOM when a file is saved. Thus the only people likely to be affected by UTF-8/no BOM are those who download tz files, open and save them in Notepad, then pass these files to a BOM-unaware parser. It all seems fairly unlikely, and really is down to the user's choice of 'faulty' tools.
+1 Deborah