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Fri, 20 April 2012 22:23

The Natural Philosoph
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Tim Streater wrote:
> In article <jmsedj$44p$1(at)dont-email(dot)me>,
> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net> wrote:
>
>> On 4/20/2012 3:13 PM, Michael Fesser wrote:
>>> .oO(Jerry Stuckle)
>>>
>>>> IOW, you screwed up and the others here were right.<?php was NOT the
>>>> first thing in your file!
>>>
>>> But this issue is not the most obvious, so you can't blame it on him.
>>> Some editors store a BOM without giving notice, others hide such
>>> settings somewhere deep in the preferences.
>>>
>>> Hopefully this problem will completely vanish with native Unicode
>>> support in PHP 6.
>
>> That's why you should never use a UTF-8 editor. Of, if you need to,
>> ensure that it's saving in ASCII mode.
>
> Rubbish. All my files are saved in UTF-8, which is no BOM by default.
> For the most part this means they are the same as ASCII files, but if I
> want to add chars like ƒ (curlique-f or whatever it's called), I can do
> that.

wiki has this to say:

The Unicode Standard does permit the BOM in UTF-8,[2] but does not
require or recommend its use.[3] Byte order has no meaning in UTF-8[4]
so in UTF-8 the BOM serves only to identify a text stream or file as UTF-8.

>
> I got fed up when my email client (written in PHP and JavaScript) kept
> displaying chinese as rubbish characters. A decision to use UTF-8
> throughout, paying careful attention to the charsets that the received
> data said it was using, converting to UTF-8 where appropriate in PHP,
> sending the right headers, and doing the right thing on the JS side has
> meant that displayed mails look correct.
>
> Windows-generated mails have a habit of lying about the charset they are
> using, but that's easy to fix up.
>
Never found a reliable way to do that..

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		Re: session question By: M. Strobel on Thu, 12 April 2012 17:43
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		Re: session question By: M. Strobel on Fri, 20 April 2012 08:55
		Re: session question By: Erwin Moller on Fri, 20 April 2012 09:25
		Re: session question By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 20 April 2012 12:11
		Re: session question By: William Gill on Fri, 20 April 2012 14:59
		Re: session question By: William Gill on Fri, 20 April 2012 15:32
		Re: session question By: Michael Fesser on Fri, 20 April 2012 15:50
		Re: session question By: William Gill on Fri, 20 April 2012 16:04
		Re: session question By: Tim Streater on Fri, 20 April 2012 17:17
		Re: session question By: M. Strobel on Fri, 20 April 2012 18:08
		Re: session question By: Tim Streater on Fri, 20 April 2012 19:36
		Re: session question By: William Gill on Sat, 21 April 2012 22:13
		Re: session question By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 20 April 2012 18:22
		Re: session question By: William Gill on Fri, 20 April 2012 19:04
		Re: session question By: The Natural Philosoph on Fri, 20 April 2012 21:09
		Re: session question By: Michael Fesser on Fri, 20 April 2012 19:13
		Re: session question By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 20 April 2012 19:45
		Re: session question By: Tim Streater on Fri, 20 April 2012 22:11
		Re: session question By: The Natural Philosoph on Fri, 20 April 2012 22:23
		Re: session question By: Tim Streater on Sat, 21 April 2012 12:14
		Re: session question By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 20 April 2012 22:45
		Re: session question By: Michael Fesser on Fri, 20 April 2012 23:24
		Re: session question By: The Natural Philosoph on Sat, 21 April 2012 00:28

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