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echo: makenl_ng
to: mark lewis
from: Wilfred van Velzen
date: 2015-02-21 16:30:20
subject: Re: Feature request

Hi,

On 2015-02-21 09:50:03, mark lewis wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "Feature request":

 MvdV>> I request that the following option be added to Makenl:

 MvdV>> RemoveBOM 1

 MvdV>> What should it do?

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

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

 ml> what would happen on big endian machines if they tried to compile a UTF-8
 ml> nodelist without a BOM in it? perhaps something is being missed in this
 ml> thinking and request to remove the BOM? granted, we're talking about UTF-8
 ml> and not UTF-16 or UTF-32 where it might matter... after some bit of time,
 ml> yeah, i think i can agree with the request, too...

The proposed option is about removing BOMs from the imput files. So the
generated nodelist, doesn't contain a number of BOMS in the middle of it.

Whether or not the generated nodelist, should contain a BOM on the front of
the file is a different matter, and this could be a usefull option in
makenl.

Bye, Wilfred.


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