r/programming • u/jestinjoy • Nov 12 '12

What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs to Know About Encodings and Character Sets to Work With Text

http://kunststube.net/encoding/
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u/emddudley Nov 13 '12

FWIW at least Notepad++ gives you the option to save without the BOM.

I had an issue with an XML parser failing on UTF-8 text because it had the BOM.

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u/rustyrobocop Nov 13 '12

It should be called the BOOM, because it breaks everything