Re: Is it possible to add utf-8 lua source file support in lua 5.2?

[David Given <dg@...>]

On 28/09/10 17:20, Rob Kendrick wrote:
[...]
> It serves no purpose for UTF-8 documents, and it's against convention to
> add one.  It causes all these pointless head aches when people who
> insist on using broken tools complain that Lua's somehow at fault.
> 
> It's not the first time it's come up.

Entirely coincidentally, in another project I've had a bug report where
using notepad to write Java manifests would fail because the BOM at the
beginning of the file would be interpreted as a character, causing the
initial Version: field's name to change. I had to add special code to
detect them and strip them off.

They're a problem *everywhere*. Just Say No to BOMs.

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