Comment by wtetzner
18 hours ago
> The very fact that UTF-8 itself discouraged from using the BOM is just so alien to me.
Adding a BOM makes it incompatible with ASCII, which is one of the benefits of using UTF-8.
18 hours ago
> The very fact that UTF-8 itself discouraged from using the BOM is just so alien to me.
Adding a BOM makes it incompatible with ASCII, which is one of the benefits of using UTF-8.
Another one who fails to read past my first sentence...
I read past your first sentence, but ASCII is used by non English speaking countries for many things. Source code, for one.