[texhax] Blank first page problem (how to remove?)

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2011-06-05 at 22:57:05 +0200, Philipp Stephani wrote:

 > 
 > Am 05.06.2011 um 22:47 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha:
 > 
 > > On 2011-06-05 at 22:08:02 +0200, Philipp Stephani wrote:
 > > 
 > >> 
 > >> Am 05.06.2011 um 20:54 schrieb Thomas Schneider:
 > >> 
 > >>>>> There are three bogus bytes at the very beginning of the file: 
 > >>> ...
 > >>> 
 > >>>> So it seems notepad in Windows have done some formatting of the
 > >>>> file formatting which I didn't notice.
 > >>> 
 > >>> That's yet Another reason to add to the pile to avoid Windows.
 > >> 
 > >> This has nothing at all to do with Windows. Unicode BOMs are
 > >> defined by the Unicode standard, and every Unicode-capable
 > >> application may choose to use them.
 > > 
 > > Well, the BOM is not needed in UTF-8.  It actually has no meaning
 > > there.  I've never seen that Emacs inserted a BOM when saving a
 > > file in UTF-8.  One of the major design goals of UTF-8 was
 > > compatibility with ASCII.  Has this been dropped by the Unicode
 > > Consortium?
 > 
 > No, and if ASCII compatibility is desired, then BOMs should be
 > avoided [1]. A BOM in UTF-8 text is not needed to specify the byte
 > ordering, but can be used to tag the text as UTF-8.  (BTW, Emacs
 > can be made to insert a BOM, too: C-x <RET> f utf-8-with-signature
 > <RET>.)
 > 
 > [1] http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#bom10 ÒSome byte oriented
 > protocols expect ASCII characters at the beginning of a file. If
 > UTF-8 is used with these protocols, use of the BOM as encoding form
 > signature should be avoided.Ó

Thanks for clarification.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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