Bug#261413: ITP: utf8script -- binfmt_misc plugin for UTF-8 scripts

[Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Martin v. Loewis <martin@v.loewis.de> wrote:

> This package provides an additional binary format for Linux: scripts
> which start with an UTF-8 signature (aka BOM), i.e.  with the byte
> sequence \xef\xbb\xbf#!.

Eh? A BOM (Byte Order Marker) is only needed where there's confusion
about what the byte order is. It's needed for UTF-16 (which is a fairly
decent demonstration of why UTF-16 is a Bad Thing), but not UTF-8. There
may be desirable to mark a file as being in UTF-8, but calling it a BOM
is just wrong.

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