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November 19, 2010 13:44
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The System.Text.UTF8Encoding class provides a constructor which allows the client to specify whether a BOM mark should be included. It doesn't seem to work.
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| -- Keep in mind the documentation for this constructor which says "A parameter specifies whether to provide a Unicode byte order mark" & "true to specify that a Unicode byte order mark is provided; otherwise, false." | |
| -- Whilst the standard allows (but does not recommend) for the optional BOM mark to be included, Excel 2003 seems to require it when reading a UTF-8 encoded csv. | |
| > let encoderWithBOM = new UTF8Encoding(true);; | |
| val encoderWithBOM : UTF8Encoding | |
| > let encodedText = encoderWithBOM.GetBytes("Some Text");; | |
| val encodedText : byte [] = | |
| [|83uy; 111uy; 109uy; 101uy; 32uy; 84uy; 101uy; 120uy; 116uy|] | |
| > let encoderWithoutBom = new UTF8Encoding(false);; | |
| val encoderWithoutBom : UTF8Encoding | |
| > let bomlessEncodedText = encoderWithoutBom.GetBytes("Some Text");; | |
| val bomlessEncodedText : byte [] = | |
| [|83uy; 111uy; 109uy; 101uy; 32uy; 84uy; 101uy; 120uy; 116uy|] |
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