Re: [boost] [serialization][documentation] character encoding oddity

From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-24 15:55:23

Peter Dimov wrote:
> Martin Wille wrote:

[...]

> I doubt such a marker would be legal
>>in or would make sense for an UTF-8 encoded document.
> 
> 
> I believe that the BOM (byte order mark) is legal in all Unicode encodings, 
> including UTF-8. 

Apparently, it is legal. However, it doesn't carry any useful 
information and not all software is able to deal with the BOM in UTF-8.

See http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#29

Regards,
m
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