Hi there tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:34:29PM +0200, Rob van der Putten wrote:
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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.
I don't think they like BOM. After all they named it 'ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE'.
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.
For HTML this works.I can even put hieroglyphs in a plain text file and print it using a plain text print queue. UTF-8 just works.
Firefox however, insists on putting a square peg into a round hole.
Let us know...
The only way to fix this is probably to edit the source.I have a very old iceape that actually gets it right. An older version had a 'remove all bookmarks' button, which no longer exists. With iceweazel one actually has to create a bookmark to switch javascript on and of (the plug-in for this does not work). And with jesie's apache there is no longer a default mime-type or cern-meta module because _NO_ _ONE_ uses this any more.
Apparently I'm a figment of my own imagination. Regards, rob