[Geany] Incorrect BOM for UTF-8 files

Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger at xxxxx
Tue Jan 23 15:53:30 UTC 2007


On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:46:09 +0100, Andreas Tscharner
<andy at vis.ethz.ch> wrote:

> Enrico Tröger wrote:
> > Er, here it works as expected.
> > - open a file
> > - set the encoding to UTF-8
> > - set to write a BOM (document menu->Write Unicode BOM)
> > - type some text
> > - save the file
> > If I open the saved file with a hexeditor, it starts with EF BB BF.
> > Which version of Geany, GLib and iconv you are using? Are you
> > perhaps using another platform than x86?
>
> Uuups
> My bad.
> For my defense: I previously used UltraEdit (in Hex-View) to watch
> the file and it says: FF FE
> When I change the editor (example: HexEdit) it shows (on the very
> same file) the correct EF BB BF pattern.
>
> Sorry for bothering.
No problem. But perhaps you found a bug in UltraEdit ;-).

Regards,
Enrico

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