No Unicode headers 0xFFFE in 4.7.2 (Write BOM didn't fix it)

msc11 · Post by **msc11** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 10:22 pm

Hi all,

I noticed that Textpad wasn't saving the 0xFFFE Unicode headers on my Unicode documents, and I read elsewhere on this forum (http://www.textpad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4287) that I could enable that by turning the setting "Write Unicode BOMs" on for my document classes. So I did that, and now it does write a Unicode header, but it's not the 0xFFFE that I or my application are expecting; rather, it seems to be something like 0xEFBBBF. How can I get the good old 0xFFFE back? Thanks.

-Marco

Post by **MudGuard** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 11:03 pm

If I remember correctly, FFFE is only used for UTF-16.
As it turns out to be either FFFE or FEFF depending on byte order.

Textpad only writes UTF 8, where the correct header is EFBBBF...