12 Jul
2007
12 Jul
'07
8:48 p.m.
andrewcoppin:
Ketil Malde wrote:
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 20:10 +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
When I tell the editor to save UTF-8, it inserts some weird "BOM" character at the start of the file - and thus, any attempt at programatically processing that file instantly fails. :-(
While BOMs (Byte Order Mark) are pretty irrelevant to byte-oriented encodings like UTF-8, I think programs that fail on their presence can be considered buggy.
Yay! Haskell's text I/O system is buggy. :-P
By the way Andrew, have you noticed that you're generating 50% of the traffic on this list? Perhaps we can work a bit more on improving the signal/noise ratio. My inbox can only take so much of this... ;) -- Don