Re: [PATCH] replace 0xA0 to whitespace in plain text files (part 2)

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] replace 0xA0 to whitespace in plain text files (part 2)
From: der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:00:24 -0400 (EDT)

> But at least, we could make the UTF-8 encoding explicit by including
> the BOM (byte order mark) at the beginning of such a file.  It is the
> byte sequence 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF.

Great.  Now, you just need to explain how to prevent that three-octet
sequence from occurring at the beginning of any other file, and it
might deserve that "explicit".

/~\ The ASCII                           der Mouse
\ / Ribbon Campaign
 X  Against HTML                mouse%rodents-montreal.org@localhost
/ \ Email!           7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39  4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

References:
- Re: [PATCH] replace 0xA0 to whitespace in plain text files (part 2)
  - From: Joachim König

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