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Specify That No UTF-8 BOM Is Allowed #4

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riggsd opened this issue Apr 29, 2017 · 1 comment
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Specify That No UTF-8 BOM Is Allowed #4

riggsd opened this issue Apr 29, 2017 · 1 comment

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riggsd commented Apr 29, 2017

Byte Order Mark (BOM) is technically allowed in UTF-8 encoding, but neither required nor recommended. Specify that the BOM is illegal in GUANO UTF-8 so that reading implementations don't have to care.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark#UTF-8

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riggsd commented Apr 29, 2017

Or, it sounds like BOM may be required for a UTF-8 plaintext file on Windows... perhaps the spec should simply warn readers that it may be present?

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