Re: [Haskell-cafe] Encoding of Haskell source files

BOM is not part of UTF8, because UTF8 is byte-oriented.  But applications should be prepared to read and discard it, because some applications erroneously generate it. Regards, Malcolm On 04 Apr, 2011,at 02:09 PM, Antoine Latter wrote: On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Max Bolingbroke wrote:

On 4 April 2011 11:34, Daniel Fischer wrote:

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If there's only a single encoding recognised, UTF-8 surely should be the one (though perhaps Windows users might disagree, iirc, Windows uses UCS2 as standard encoding).

Windows APIs use UTF-16, but the encoding of files (which is the relevant point here) is almost uniformly UTF-8 - though of course you can find legacy apps making other choices.

Would we need to specifically allow for a Windows-style leading BOM in UTF-8 documents? I can never remember if it is truly a part of UTF-8 or not.

Cheers, Max

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