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Re: [Chicken-users] BOM in a Scheme source file


From: John Cowan
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] BOM in a Scheme source file
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 22:18:34 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

Zbigniew scripsit:
> BOM breaks the UNIX shebang mechanism.  To me, this is good enough
> reason to avoid prepending a BOM to scripts, and to detect encoding
> via heuristic, user directive or current locale.

I agree w/r/t scripts.

My point is not that it's a Good Thing to generate 8-BOMs, but that
it's a Good Thing to accept them, in accordance with Postel's law.

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