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wtetzner
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Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerab...
> The very fact that UTF-8 itself discouraged from using the BOM is just so alien to me.
Adding a BOM makes it incompatible with ASCII, which is one of the benefits of using UTF-8.
7bit
7 months ago
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Another one who fails to read past my first sentence...
wtetzner
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I read past your first sentence, but ASCII is used by non English speaking countries for many things. Source code, for one.
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Adding a BOM makes it incompatible with ASCII, which is one of the benefits of using UTF-8.