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g-b-rtoday at 12:36 PM1 replyview on HN

Indeed, I've been using the BOM in all my text files for maybe decades now, those who wrote the recommendation are clearly from an English country


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dspilletttoday at 2:01 PM

> are clearly from an English country

One particular English-speaking country… The UK has issues with ASCII too, as our currently symbol (£) is not included. Not nearly as much trouble as non-English languages due to the lack of accents & such that they need, but we are still affected.