Subj : Re: Feature request
To   : Kees van Eeten
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Fri Jul 27 2018 01:25:02

Hi,

On 2015-02-21 16:09:08, Kees van Eeten wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "Feature request":

 WvV>> Maybe you want to have a BOM as the first few bytes of the produced
 WvV>> nodelist by makenl (or not), so that could be an option. But keeping
 WvV>> them in the middle of the file breaks the standard, so I can't
 WvV>> imagine why that would be usefull, even in the future. But it's up to
 WvV>> the developper. ;)

 KvE> For browsing the nodelist, the position of the BOM when used, should
 KvE> be the first three bytes in the file. That however breaks makenl. The
 KvE> danger of BOM creeping in is mainly at the start of the included
 KvE> files. Another place where de BOM may cause havoc is with manually
 KvE> maintained segments without the headerline. That will probably cause
 KvE> makenl to mark the line with the segment host as in error, unless the
 KvE> BOM is directly followed by cr/lf.

So what you are saying is that BOMs should always be filtered out from input 
files before further processing. And there's no need to make this an option. ;)

Bye, Wilfred.


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