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

[Owen Shepherd <owen.shepherd@...>]

Javier Guerra Giraldez

09 July 2012 19:49

.... and they explicitly recommended against its use in UTF-8

of course, given the "be liberal in what you accept, conservative in
what you send", it's not unreasonable to implement a BOM-skipping
code, even in UTF-8.


--
Javier

http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#bom5  says otherwise. They just say its use is discouraged or invalid in some cases where the encoding is already known.