On Sep 26, 2017, at 12:55, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Please cite *specifically* what you think is relevant with respect to the use of BOMs in plain text files. That’s all already been said in the thread, but to repeat, with links: STD0063 section 6: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3629#section-6 "Use of a BOM is neither required nor recommended for UTF-8": http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode10.0.0/ch02.pdf And RFC 5198, section 2, item 5: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5198#section-2 Of course, BOM-pollution apologists will find enough rope in these documents to hang themselves. That is really the problem here: the tendency to weasel around decisions in standards. (Or to make them in the first place. UCS-2-BE vs. UCS-2-LE all over again.) Grüße, Carsten