David Carlisle a écrit :
> There, if there is no external metadata or xml declaration the file has
> to be in utf16 or utf8, and the BOM is optional for utf8, so if the file
> has no BOM, then the parser does not "give up" The file is treated as if
> utf8 is specified.
The BOM has some sense only with 16-bits encoding charsets ; it
indicates the endianness, that is to say which one of the 2 bytes is
stored first
If the encoding it specified as UTF-16 without more indications about
endianness, or not specified at all, the BOM -if present- will state if
it is UTF-16le or UTF-16be (it seems that if the encoding is specified,
it is a redundant information)
If the BOM is missing and the encoding not specified, the encoding is
either UTF-16xx (I don't remember which one is the default :) ) or UTF-8
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Cordialement,
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