From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 28 18:29:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 201351065675 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:29:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lab@gta.com) Received: from mailgate.gta.com (mailgate.gta.com [199.120.225.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A7B5F8FC1D for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:29:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lab@gta.com) Received: (qmail 16302 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Apr 2009 18:03:02 -0000 Date: 28 Apr 2009 18:03:02 -0000 Message-ID: <20090428180302.16301.qmail@mailgate.gta.com> From: Larry Baird To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Organization: Global Technology Associates In-Reply-To: <109321.93238.94573@localhost> X-Newsgroups: freebsd.chat User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.3-PRERELEASE (i386)) Cc: Subject: Re: UTF as Filename Extension X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:29:45 -0000 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. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Larry Baird | http://www.gta.com Global Technology Associates, Inc. | Orlando, FL Email: lab@gta.com | TEL 407-380-0220, FAX 407-380-6080