Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8

[Jason Rumney]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I'm not sure you are barking the right tree.  AFAIK, Microsoft doesn't
> use UTF-8 at all, they use UTF-16 (where a BOM is generally
> necessary).
>   

What Miles is talking about is certain Microsoft software (including 
their XML library), which when saving to UTF-8 writes a UTF-8 encoded 
0xFEFF at the start of the file. Its probably caused by first encoding 
in UTF-16 then transcoding to UTF-8.