Re: luaL_loadfile doesn't like the UTF-8 BOM

["Simon Orde" <sorde@...>]

Many thanks for the replies to this - all helpful.

Philippe - I have to think about legacy scripts written in ANSI, and the 
possibility that people may want to write new scripts to be run against old 
versions of my software, which expects ANSI.  Yes I can easily convert old 
ANSI scripts if I know that that's what they are, but users can import 
scripts written by others, and without a BOM it's tricky to distinguish the 
encoding.  Also, internally my app will use UTF-16 so I have to do a lot of 
string conversion anyway.  It's not significantly harder for me to add 
support for ANSI as a conversion target, as well as UTF-8.  Also, I want 
plugin authors to be able to work in ANSI anyway if they want to, because 
it's easier.  I agree that there are ways of doing it which avoid the need 
for a BOM.  I'm not sure if they are better though.

Simon