<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I would not be in favor of preferring a BOM in UTF8 streams.</div><div><br>On Feb 20, 2015, at 2:46 PM, "Glenn Slayden" <<a href="mailto:glenn@thai-language.com">glenn@thai-language.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite">…but also the matter of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark">BOM</a> (byte-order mark), versus lack thereof, in UTF-8 and/or wide-character (Unicode, UTF-16, UTF-32) files.</blockquote></body></html>