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

From: Simon Buchan (simon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-25 00:48:20

Martin Wille wrote:
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> 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.
> 
I believe it is intended to signal the text is UTF encoded, rather than, 
say, ISO-8859-15. And most of the software that can't deal with BOM's 
aren't too happy with UTF anyway.

In Firefox choosing UTF-8 encoding explicitly makes it disappear, It 
should automatically figure it out, but obviously the meta tag is 
discouraging it.

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