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Date:      28 Apr 2009 18:03:02 -0000
From:      Larry Baird <lab@gta.com>
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UTF as Filename Extension
Message-ID:  <20090428180302.16301.qmail@mailgate.gta.com>
In-Reply-To: <109321.93238.94573@localhost>

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In article <109321.93238.94573@localhost> you wrote:
> According to Larry Baird:
> > I have also put utf-8 bomb characters at the beginning of my text files.
> > Take a look at:
> >       http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicode
> 
> You don't need BOM for UTF-8 files, UTF-8 is a byte-oriented encoding,
> that's one of its great interest...
I agree with not needing the BOM for processing.  I have some files that I
pass around between different users in different locales.  I want to make
sure these files come back to me still in utf-8 format.  

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