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Re: APT-Fu 0.2.3



I demand that Scott James Remnant may or may not have written...

> On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 08:47, Herbert Xu wrote:
>> Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org> wrote:
>>> But your message didn't include a Content-Type header specifying that, so
>>> it's likely to come through as garbage for most MUAs...
>> Right, here it is again
>> \xEF\xBB\xBF\xE8\xBE\xAD\xE6\xB5\xB7

> Now that's just the hand-printed bytecodes of raw UTF-8 :-)

> Now, if my by-hand Unicode isn't rusty, I make this out to be

> U+FEFF	ZERO WIDTH NO_BREAK SPACE
> [...]

Slightly rusty: since that's at the start of the string, it's telling you
which endianness is in use in the string.

(ICBW, of course.)

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