On 12/23/00, Martin Gainty <mgainty@hotmail.com> wrote:
> the specifics..
>
> Some byte oriented protocols expect ASCII characters at the beginning of a
> file.
> If UTF-8 is used with these protocols, use of the BOM as encoding form
> signature should be avoided.
Sure, but that isn't true of generic text files, which is one of the
major applications of a UTF-8 BOM. Especially when said text files are
being fed to something that understands multiple encodings. The other
items on that page say as much...