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by pfusik
1709 days ago
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There are still many Windows programs that default to current Code Page instead of UTF-8. I prefer to have the encoding explicit in the file contents rather than rely on some external file type configuration. This is just a loose recommendation, cito does accept files without the BOM. |
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It seems to me that if you say Ć program text is UTF-8 then that is an explicit encoding, and that if you feel it isn't explicit enough, an actual way to write out the encoding unambiguously is needed instead, which a BOM doesn't provide.
I am a little concerned by the wording "cito does accept files with the BOM". The BOM was chosen because it's a zero-width non-breaking character and so doesn't really mean anything, if cito thinks it means something, that's likely to be a problem elsewhere. For example if I concatenate two related Ć files, that ought to be fine, but I wonder if there's a BOM in the second file its presence in the middle of the concatenated file causes trouble.