In article <slr### [at] fwicom> , ron### [at] povrayorg (Ron
Parker) wrote:

> It is UTF-8, but it starts with EF BB BF, the UTF-8 encoding of the FFFE
> endianness indicator (as written on an Intel machine, obviously.  A Motorola
> machine would use EF BF BE)  We could easily interpret the presence of those
> three bytes as an implicit UTF-8 charmap, and infer the endianness of the
> other UTF-8 characters in the file at the same time.

Ah, of course, if it is a whole UTF-8 file.  I will fix it in the next few
weeks.


    Thorsten


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