[seqfan] Re: Windows text editor

Richard Mathar mathar at strw.leidenuniv.nl
Thu Jan 13 20:55:54 CET 2011


http://list.seqfan.eu/pipermail/seqfan/2011-January/006833.html

kb>
kb> Russ Cox tood me that the new uploader expects text files to be encoded 
kb> in UTF-8.

I hope that b-files stay in plain ASCII. The occurrence of (non-ASCII)
byte-order-marks (BOM's) in UTF files (which are not shown by all editors by
default and make parsing more difficult in basically all standard languages)
is not a nice feature.

Richard



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