Hi,

On 2015-02-21 15:19:09, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "Feature request":

 MvdV>>> Remove any UTF-8 Byte Order Mark (BOM).

 WV>> Why should it be an option? Is there a situation where you want to
 WV>> keep the BOM?

 MvdV> I didn't consider that. No, I can't think of a reason why I'd want to keep
 MvdV> a BOM.

 MvdV> However... Predicting the future is not one of my strong points. A good
 MvdV> reason may come up some day. I prefer not to close down options too soon.
 MvdV> Right now, now that we have an active developer it is little extra work to
 MvdV> make it an option. The code for generating options is there. It will just
 MvdV> be another if/then in the code.

Maybe you want to have a BOM as the first few bytes of the produced
nodelist by makenl (or not), so that could be an option. But keeping them
in the middle of the file breaks the standard, so I can't imagine why that
would be usefull, even in the future. But it's up to the developper. ;)

Bye, Wilfred.


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