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From tomas@tuxteam.de
Subject Re: [rfc] unicode escapes for extended strings
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Msg-id 20090925055514.GA19115@tomas
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In response to Re: [rfc] unicode escapes for extended strings  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 09:42:32PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 22:46 +0300, Marko Kreen wrote:

[...]

> Good idea.  This could also check for other invalid things like
> byte-order marks in UTF-8.

But watch out. Microsoft apps do like to insert a BOM at the beginning
of the text. Not that I think it's a good idea, but the Unicode folks
seem to think its OK [1] :-(
 <http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#bom5>

Regards
- -- tomás
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