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wtetzner | 17 days ago

> The very fact that UTF-8 itself discouraged from using the BOM is just so alien to me.

Adding a BOM makes it incompatible with ASCII, which is one of the benefits of using UTF-8.

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7bit|16 days ago

Another one who fails to read past my first sentence...

wtetzner|16 days ago

I read past your first sentence, but ASCII is used by non English speaking countries for many things. Source code, for one.