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Hanoi Omega-Automata Format
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byte-order-mark #25

Closed adl closed 9 years ago

adl commented 10 years ago

Joachim points out that if the comments or strings in our format are allowed to contain utf8 character, the file (or stream) should also be allowed to contain some BOM at the very beginning, and that this BOM should be propagated to the output.

I suggest we ignore this for now.

strejcek commented 9 years ago

The format can be used also as a part of larger files (e.g. CSV files mentioned in the Goals section). Because BOM should always appear at the beginning of a text stream, I suggest not to include BOM in the format. You can always build a stream starting with BOM and followed by a string matching the format.

adl commented 9 years ago

I believe this is actually the conclusion we had when discussing this with Joachim: that we should not bother about this issue.