Comments on: WTF? Unicode Byte Order Mark http://www.akawebdesign.com/2009/12/10/wtf-unicode-byte-order-mark/ Longtime nerd. Rockstar developer. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:33:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Milton http://www.akawebdesign.com/2009/12/10/wtf-unicode-byte-order-mark/#comment-86 Milton Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:24:12 +0000 http://blog.akawebdesign.com/?p=303#comment-86 Thank you! I am using Visual Studio to edit a simple little site for a friend using SSI and this was boggling my mind. Thank you! I am using Visual Studio to edit a simple little site for a friend using SSI and this was boggling my mind.

]]> By: Pim http://www.akawebdesign.com/2009/12/10/wtf-unicode-byte-order-mark/#comment-85 Pim Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:38:02 +0000 http://blog.akawebdesign.com/?p=303#comment-85 I would recomment against saving files as UTF-8 without BOM. BOMs are very handy to define files as being UTF-8 encoded. Without a BOM, a UTF-8 file looks an awful lot like Windows-1252 or any other 8-bit character set. If you really, absolutely don't want anything to do with BOMs, just encode as Windows-1252 (or as Microsoft likes to call it, ANSI) and be BOM-free. In the case of HTML (or PHP or anything that outputs HTML) you can write unusual characters as character entities, so you won't need Unicode anyway. Pim I would recomment against saving files as UTF-8 without BOM.
BOMs are very handy to define files as being UTF-8 encoded. Without a BOM, a UTF-8 file looks an awful lot like Windows-1252 or any other 8-bit character set.

If you really, absolutely don’t want anything to do with BOMs, just encode as Windows-1252 (or as Microsoft likes to call it, ANSI) and be BOM-free. In the case of HTML (or PHP or anything that outputs HTML) you can write unusual characters as character entities, so you won’t need Unicode anyway.

Pim

]]> By: Jorge http://www.akawebdesign.com/2009/12/10/wtf-unicode-byte-order-mark/#comment-84 Jorge Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:33:52 +0000 http://blog.akawebdesign.com/?p=303#comment-84 Welcome to the club. I run into this all the time. Sometimes I just use Notepadd++, which has a more accesible "Encode in UTF-8 without BOM" menu. Welcome to the club. I run into this all the time. Sometimes I just use Notepadd++, which has a more accesible “Encode in UTF-8 without BOM” menu.

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