[seqfan] Re: Windows text editor

[Russ Cox]

> 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.

The b files have a strict format; byte order marks are not allowed.

Russ