[Geany] Incorrect BOM for UTF-8 files

Andreas Tscharner andy at xxxxx
Tue Jan 23 14:58:01 UTC 2007


Hello World, hello Enrico,

I've noticed today that the "Write Unicode BOM" function from geany 
writes FF FE for my test file for which I used UTF-8 encoding.
FF FE is the BOM for UTF-16 little endian, for UTF-8 the correct BOM 
would be EF BB BF

See: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/utf_bom.html#BOM

Is this a bug or is there any reason for doing so?

Best regards
	Andreas

P.S. I noticed that other editors also write FF FE for UTF-8 files...
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     Andreas Tscharner		andy at vis.ethz.ch
    http://www.vis.ethz.ch/~andy   ICQ-No. 14356454



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