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   Wilfred van Velzen to Michiel van der Vlist   
   Re: Feature request   
   21 Feb 15 15:54:29   
   
   Hi,   
      
   On 2015-02-21 15:19:09, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:   
     about: "Feature request":   
      
    MvdV>>> Remove any UTF-8 Byte Order Mark (BOM).   
      
    WV>> Why should it be an option? Is there a situation where you want to   
    WV>> keep the BOM?   
      
    MvdV> I didn't consider that. No, I can't think of a reason why I'd want to   
   keep   
    MvdV> a BOM.   
      
    MvdV> However... Predicting the future is not one of my strong points. A good   
    MvdV> reason may come up some day. I prefer not to close down options too   
   soon.   
    MvdV> Right now, now that we have an active developer it is little extra work   
   to   
    MvdV> make it an option. The code for generating options is there. It will   
   just   
    MvdV> be another if/then in the code.   
      
   Maybe you want to have a BOM as the first few bytes of the produced nodelist   
   by makenl (or not), so that could be an option. But keeping them in the middle   
   of the file breaks the standard, so I can't imagine why that would be usefull,   
   even in the future. But it's up to the developper. ;)   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
      
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