Re: [Haskell-cafe] Type system madness

On Jul 11, 2007, at 15:23 , Alex Queiroz wrote:

On 7/11/07, Andrew Coppin wrote:

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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. :-(

Are you sure it's not UTF-16?

GNOME's gedit, for one, has a tendency to put byte order marks at the beginning of every line in UTF8 mode. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH