Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >comp.text.xml Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - Re: Mapforce: mapping to CSV without column header line inserts hex FF FE FF FE [Thread Next] Re: Mapforce: mapping to CSV without column header line inserts hex FF FE FF FETo: NULL Date: 1/4/2006 12:16:00 AM In article <43ba752d$23$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@n...>, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@l...> wrote: >>It also serves to indicate the encoding, as well as which byte-order >>variant >What byte-order variant? UTF-8 uses a stream of 8-bit bytes (octets), >not a stream of 16-bit bytes; there is no byte ordering issue. The obvious use of a BOM - as the name implies - is to indicate which byte order variant of an encoding is being used. It is *also* used to indicate the encoding itself. Obviously for UTF-8 only this second fuction is relevant. -- Richard | ||||||
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