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Re: Mapforce: mapping to CSV without column header line inserts hex FF FE FF FE

From: richard@------.--.--.-- (------- -----)
To: 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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