Re: How to display and remove BOM in utf-8 encoded file

May I add some observation to this discution?

The better way to use BOM is when you know your target. I work in a MacBook
which has UTF-8 as default. When I'm working with Objective-C that will be
compiled using LLVM there is no problem using BOM (which is a good thing since
the encoding can be easily recognized). But when I'm working with Java, doing
something for the Android platform, I use ISO-8859-1 because the Google guys
had defined the 'encoding' argument of the 'javac' compiler as 'ASCII' in an
ANT XML somewhere.

I known, also, that PHP doesn't handle BOM well. So I decided to work with PHP
also in ISO-8859-1. But, my e-mails are all HTML formated using UTF-8 with BOM
(edited on VIM), always seen in Firefox, Safari or Chrome with no problems.

I believe that the problem with major browsers is in respect with user
configuration. You can left the browser discover the character set of a page
or configure it to use one based in the assumption that you are in an
occidental country (or another part of the world). This causes no problems if
you don't open pages from another countries. In the current days, is
preferable if you let the browser handle the encoding it self.

Regards.

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