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Re: byte-order marks


From: Mike Gran
Subject: Re: byte-order marks
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:20:16 -0800 (PST)

> What do people think about this attached patch?
> 
> Andy

If you find the word
"coding" by scanning 8-bit char by 8-bit char, it can't
be UTF-16, since that would be more like
"c o d i n g :" with nulls interspersed.
 
While rather unlikely, it is a theoretical possibility
that a doc in encodings like ISO-8859-2 through 8859-5
could begin with 0xff 0xfe or 0xfe 0xff.  They are
valid characters.
 
So if there is a "coding:" line in the doc, I think it
should nullify giving precedence to a UTF-16 BOM.
 
-Mike Gran



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