>> The Unicode Standard permits the BOM in UTF-8,[2] but does not >> require nor recommend its use.[3] Byte order has no meaning in UTF-8,[4] >> so its only use in UTF-8 is to signal at the start that the text stream >> is encoded in UTF-8. The BOM may also appear when UTF-8 data is >> converted from other encodings that use a BOM. The standard also does >> not recommend removing a BOM when it is there, so that round-tripping >> between encodings does not lose information, and so that code that >> relies on it continues to work.[5] [6]
MvdV> "The Unicode Standard permits the BOM in UTF-8".
MvdV> What more needs to be said?
That you put it in the middle of the text stream. The start of a fidonet message is after the binary part. For echomail that would be before the areas tag. The fact that your messages editor does not show part of the message, does not mean, that it is not there.
By the way, I would not recommend putting the BOM before the area tag, I expect, that tossers will balk. ;)
Kees
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