On 12/20/07, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 02:53:16PM +0800, bookman bookman wrote:
> > I know that every line of utf8 files is started with "fffe" or "feff"
> > and ended with "\r\n" in windows but not in linux,so the character
> > "1" has a space before it in the error line.
> Err, no. In UTF-16 files it is common to begin the *file* with that
> character, but UTF-8 doesn't have that character anywhere, it's
> illegal. Just stripping them out should be fine.
A BOM is perfectly legal in UTF-8, and it's commonly used as a
signature to indicate the text is UTF-8 instead of another encoding.
But yes, it is at the beginning of the file only.
http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#29