Paul Prescod <paulp@ActiveState.com> writes: > 3) I think that distinguising UTF-8 from other encodings through the > BOM is actually a great idea and I wish that every UTF-8 creator would > do it! I think it's even mandated by ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000. However, the BOM is incompatible with the traditional Unix tools, so most people (especially the Linux-UTF-8 folks) recommend not to use it.