Re: What's the TextEditor rules on what's safe to load?

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 07/05/2025 à 23:11, Bruce Steers a écrit :
> Got a guy on the mailing list that likes to complain about TextEditor 
> not supporting some utf-8 chars.
>
> I simply explained some time ago when he had a similar issue ...  It's a 
> "text" editor
>
> but he's on one again.
> Saying utf-8 BOM causes an error.
> https://forum.gambas.one/viewtopic.php?t=2077 <https://forum.gambas.one/ 
> viewtopic.php?t=2077>
>
> I don't know what to tell him.
> Could someone explain exactly what TextEditor is built to handle and 
> what not to use, or complain about if it fails?
>
> Cheers
> BruceS

I don't get an error with a file starting with UTF-8 BOM, just an 
invisible character at the beginning of the first line.

Note that BOM is a Windows thing created by moronic developers that did 
not understand UTF-8. BOM is useless in UTF-8, as there is no byte order 
in UTF-8.

Regards,

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Benoît Minisini.