Comments on: UTF-8 preamble is a problem when you concatenate files

By: Aki Björklund

Aki Björklund — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:12:29 +0000

There is no such thing as plain text.

Jouni Heikniemi — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:48:17 +0000

I definitely agree XML shouldn't be considered a string and that the code sucks.

On the other hand, the BOM-in-the-middle-of-the-file issue is not limited to XML: The same would appear in plain text as well.

Aki Björklund — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:42:15 +0000

Creating XML by concatenating strings is pretty stupid (but also pretty common). I would not blame the tool in this one. Henri Sivonen: HOWTO Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML

Timo Laak — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:04:13 +0000

Rule #1: Do not use Notepad. It sucks. Use Notepad++, UltraEdit or something more advanced editor instead.

And it is very strange that Visual Studio does not use Unicode by default. MS really should abandon the Windows-1252 encoding.