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[bug-gnu-libiconv] [bug #55609] Add support for BOM exceptions as indica
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Bruno Haible |
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[bug-gnu-libiconv] [bug #55609] Add support for BOM exceptions as indicated in RFC 2781 section 3.3 |
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Sun, 27 Jun 2021 11:02:43 -0400 (EDT) |
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Update of bug #55609 (project libiconv):
Category: None => Encodings
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Follow-up Comment #10:
> iconv is needed to produce Little Endian, with BOM. None of the UTF-16,
UTF-16BE, and UTF-16LE do just that.
Correct. The encoding name to use depends on the receiver.
If the receiver expects little-endian always, use "UTF-16LE" as the encoding
specification; a BOM would be useless (and sometimes interpreted as a
character, causing trouble).
If the receiver can handle both little-endian and big-endian input, it needs
guidance; this guidance can be either an explicit label (out-of-band) or a BOM
(in-band); in the latter case, use "UTF-16" as the encoding specification.
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