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Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset



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On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:34:29PM +0200, Rob van der Putten wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> 
> tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

[BOM BOM hurrah!]

> I actually thought about this. But it just seems crude;
> 
> vim some.txt
> ^vufeff<Enter>
> <Esc>:wq<Enter>
> 
> It does work though.
> But I want UTF-8 without a BOM. It is, after all, the default locale.

Everyone wants that... except Microsoft, it seems.

> Is Firefox really this braindead?

Sometimes I fear that too.

> Note: If you edit this again, vim doesn't show the BOM any more.
> It's there though.

That's because it has been enshrined by the Unicode Consortium. I think
I know who pushed that (Apple might have helped, though). So Vim's
correct in tolerating that on input.

Perhaps you can help yourself by even uglier tricks (like with an
http-equiv header in your HTML). But best would be if you could
exorcise this abject behaviour from Firefox.

Let us know...

regards
- -- tomás
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