Comment by dspillett
7 days ago
> The very fact that UTF-8 itself discouraged from using the BOM is just so alien to me.
One of the key advantages of UTF8 is that all ASCII content is effectively UTF-8. Having the BOM present reduces that convenience a bit, and a file starting with the three bytes 0xEF,0xBB,0xBF may be mistaken by some tools for a binary file rather than readable text.
Did you read past the first sentence I wrote?
ASCII does not work for any country than the US, making it a shit encoding.
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