Apparently all YouTube comments have a UTF-8 BOM... at the end. YouTube, don't drink and webdev. @FakeUnicodepic.twitter.com/QSnzPdNhti
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Again, BOM in UTF-8 content is useless... byte order for just one byte encoding?? We are no talking about UTF-16
The UTF-8 BOM isn't about byte order, it's a magic number for UTF-8 data. We just call it a BOM because that codepoint also serves to distinguish UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE.
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Sure, but this magic has no meaningful use on UTF-8...
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BO doesn't of course, but the *BOM* does, under specific circumstances. You throw a UTF-8 parser at what might be UTF-8 text and it sees a UTF-16 BOM it is going to *nopenopenope* the other way. Also the aforementioned "this is UTF-8" for browsers and remote text/plain resources.
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