Unicode for cross-platform use

Dean Snyder dean.snyder at jhu.edu
Thu Nov 18 13:08:04 EST 2004


Kjetil Rå Hauge wrote at 6:56 PM on Thursday, November 18, 2004:

>First of all, there seems to be no automatic 
>conversion of byte order (like those that word 
>processors have?), so to use Mac Unicode files on 
>the Windows build of my application, they have to 
>be bitswapped through BBEdit, Wordpad or some 
>other way.

Do the files you're importing have the byte-order-marker as the first two
bytes?

See:

<http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#BOM>


Respectfully,

Dean A. Snyder

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