Am 22.02.2012 22:28, schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:

>> Use an editor that places a BOM at the start of UFT-8 files and bob's
>> your uncle.
>
> In other words, "there is this informal undocumented /convention/ that
> if a file starts with a BOM [even though UTF-8 does not require such a
> mark, since there /is/ no byte order], then it is presumed to contain
> UTF-8".
>
> I wonder how widely implemented this undocumented feature is?

Most likely more widespread than you think.

As an alternative, forget UTF-8 and go for UTF-16.

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