zendak
Member
Hi,
Is there a way to keep UTF-8 from inserting a Byte-Order Mark? Something like setting the "UTF-8 cookie" property in SciTE.. The BOM causes some problems with certain interpreters like PHP and older browsers, and if I understand correctly, makes sense in UTF-16 only anyway.
Apart from that I love the program. Using v2.0.6.1
Thanks in advance
Is there a way to keep UTF-8 from inserting a Byte-Order Mark? Something like setting the "UTF-8 cookie" property in SciTE..
Sure: File->Encoding->UTF-8 No Mark :)
and if I understand correctly, makes sense in UTF-16 only anyway.
And how would any text consuming application know that it is UTF-8 whithout a BOM?
simon
PN Developer
The UTF-8 No Mark option is only available in development builds, but that is it's purpose. I seem to get this question a lot, I had no idea so many programs would use UTF-8 without signalling it or understanding it - crazy!
I doubt PHP understands (or even cares) about its source file encodings - which can be witnessed when using a BOM on such a file... - which is another good reason to use UTF-8 for PHP files.
I doubt there are that many programs that get it right without the uses help; at least for legacy files, it might be safe to assume UTF-8 for BOM less ones for newer/current files.
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