[Haskell-cafe] Encoding of Haskell source files

[malcolm.wallace]

BOM is not part of UTF8, because UTF8 is byte-oriented.  But applications should be prepared to read and discard it, because some applications erroneously generate it.
Regards,
    Malcolm

On 04 Apr, 2011,at 02:09 PM, Antoine Latter <aslatter at gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Max Bolingbroke
<batterseapower at hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 April 2011 11:34, Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fischer at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> If there's only a single encoding recognised, UTF-8 surely should be the
>> one (though perhaps Windows users might disagree, iirc, Windows uses UCS2
>> as standard encoding).
>
> Windows APIs use UTF-16, but the encoding of files (which is the
> relevant point here) is almost uniformly UTF-8 - though of course you
> can find legacy apps making other choices.
>

Would we need to specifically allow for a Windows-style leading BOM in
UTF-8 documents? I can never remember if it is truly a part of UTF-8
or not.

> Cheers,
> Max
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