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.

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.