Subj : Re: Feature request
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Fri Jul 27 2018 01:25:02

Hi,

On 2015-02-21 15:19:09, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "Feature request":

 MvdV>>> Remove any UTF-8 Byte Order Mark (BOM).

 WV>> Why should it be an option? Is there a situation where you want to
 WV>> keep the BOM?

 MvdV> I didn't consider that. No, I can't think of a reason why I'd want to 
keep
 MvdV> a BOM.

 MvdV> However... Predicting the future is not one of my strong points. A good
 MvdV> reason may come up some day. I prefer not to close down options too 
soon.
 MvdV> Right now, now that we have an active developer it is little extra work 
to
 MvdV> make it an option. The code for generating options is there. It will 
just
 MvdV> be another if/then in the code.

Maybe you want to have a BOM as the first few bytes of the produced nodelist by 
makenl (or not), so that could be an option. But keeping them in the middle of 
the file breaks the standard, so I can't imagine why that would be usefull, 
even in the future. But it's up to the developper. ;)

Bye, Wilfred.


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