[texworks] [XeTeX] Use of BOM in XeTeX and TeXworks

[Zdenek Wagner]

so 13. 7. 2019 v 22:26 odesílatel David Carlisle
<d.p.carlisle at gmail.com> napsal:
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> On Sat, 13 Jul 2019 at 21:21, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> I received files from other users with BOM in UTF-8 ans UTF-16 and
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>> XeTeX correctly recognized them. Tested on Linux and Mac.
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> Yes sure, when I said an encoding comment was more readable I meant "more readable for humans to understand what is happening" not that software finds it easier to read the comment than a BOM.
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You are right but text editors do not recognize encoding comments and
hence allow you to add UTF-8 characters to ISO 8859-1 files. BOM-aware
editors will not allow to save such a mixed file hence you will not be
able to damage the file by mistake.
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> David
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Zdeněk Wagner
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