[sword-devel] BOM and Osis2Mod

[Wolfgang Schultz]

Hello,


here we see the difference between user centric programming and
ideological influence on how to make programms :))

On my opinion  i would  change osis2mod ( and also vpl2mod) so that it
isn't  an obstacle for using in any situation.... BOM or not BOM.

However  osis2mod should print out an error message at least if there
is a BOM, now it gives no meaningful hint if it fails in this case..

wolfgang








2009/1/6 DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com>:
> Ian Wagner wrote:
>>
>> See http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#bom1. It indicates the encoding
>> that the file is written in, be it big-endian (most siginificant byte to
>> least significant byte-- the way that we write, and the way the PowerPC
>> stores numbers in memory), or little-endian (the reverse and the way intel
>> processors store numbers in memory).
>
> Ian,
> Thanks for the link. On the same page, it states that UTF-8 only has a
> single ordering of bytes. There is only one BOM appropriate for it: EF BB
> BF. As osis2mod only works for UTF-8 and cp1252 (Win Latin 1), the presence
> of it would be noise. If another BOM is present, I think osis2mod should
> fail.
> In Him,
>   DM
>>
>> Ian
>> ---------------
>> Dr!nk m0r3 J0lt ^_^
>>
>> On Jan 6, 2009, at 10:18 AM, DM Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Wolfgang Schultz wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> if the utf-8 OSIS file has a BOM  ( Byte Order Mark some editors
>>>> insert one) Osis2Mod will fail to make a sword-modul, it were nice if
>>>> this would be fixed, because it will cause lot of problems in further
>>>> steps :(
>>>>
>>> What does a byte order mark mean for a UTF-8 file? Is it just noise?
>>>
>>> If it is just noise, the change is easy and I'll make it.
>>>
>>> In Christ's Service,
>>> DM
>
>
>
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