[erlang-questions] utf8 in source files

[Masklinn]

On 2010-11-08, at 21:53 , Allan Wegan wrote:
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>> The question is "only" how it should work to be as useful as possible
>> and still reasonably enough backward compatible.
> It should assume that a BOM is present at the start of the file.
Why? BOMs are for UTF-16 and UTF-32 which are generally silly encodings to use in source file