Re: BOM-free tests [was Should the IETF be condoning, even promoting, BOM pollution?]

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On Sep 18, 2017, at 9:24 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It would be interesting to hear similar facts from people using other systems.
(My Python3 code for removing the BOM is below, or it seems there is
a utility called iconv that can do it.)

On Windows 10, Notepad fails to recognize the EOL character.   Wordpad borks the formatting but at least displays something legible, but assumes that the file is ISO-8859-1, so there's a garbage character before each unicode character.   Can't get Edge to load a file—there's no UI for that.   God, what a straitjacket.   Sigh.

On the Mac, I couldn't get any application to do the wrong thing.

The real question is, what happens when Edge or Explorer downloads a file with an encoding of utf8, that doesn't include a BOM.


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