http://winterdom.com/2008/05/dontforgetthebom by dæmons be driven Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:33:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://winterdom.com/2008/05/dontforgetthebom/comment-page-1#comment-3 Tomas Restrepo Wed, 14 May 2008 05:50:30 +0000 http://winterdom.com/2008/05/dontforgetthebom#comment-3 George: Those are valid concerns. However, you could argue that 1) it's a terrible idea to concatenate text files as if they were raw binary files; what if they are in different encodings? 2) Sounds like Rhino JavaScript has one nasty bug :) George: Those are valid concerns. However, you could argue that
1) it’s a terrible idea to concatenate text files as if they were raw binary files; what if they are in different encodings?
2) Sounds like Rhino JavaScript has one nasty bug

]]> http://winterdom.com/2008/05/dontforgetthebom/comment-page-1#comment-2 George V. Reilly Tue, 13 May 2008 23:44:07 +0000 http://winterdom.com/2008/05/dontforgetthebom#comment-2 I'm mildly in favor of BOMs, but I've run into a couple of cases where they cause problems: 1. Concatenating files together: cat *.txt > all.txt. BOMs embedded in the middle of the resulting file give most tools a conniption fit. 2. The Rhino JavaScript engine pukes on BOMs, which is annoying because Visual Studio generates them by default. Easily fixed in Vim with :argdo set nobomb|w I’m mildly in favor of BOMs, but I’ve run into a couple of cases where they cause problems:
1. Concatenating files together: cat *.txt > all.txt. BOMs embedded in the middle of the resulting file give most tools a conniption fit.
2. The Rhino JavaScript engine pukes on BOMs, which is annoying because Visual Studio generates them by default. Easily fixed in Vim with :argdo set nobomb|w

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