Adriano,

At 12:03 AM 14/11/2008, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:

>Another know problem you will see is the wrong formatting in utf8.txt.
>The others things should be equal.

Is the "formatting problem" you refer to the habit, of Notepad, OO.o and other text editors, of auto-inserting a BOM sequence at the beginning of the file?

UTF8 doesn't need a BOM (unlike other Unicode formats, it is byte-order-neutral). For my UTF8 scripts I have been using a free, open source editor called Notepad-Plus-Plus (Notepad++) which allows you to save unicode files without the BOM. (You can convert existing textfiles in-line with this editor as well; *and* it is SQL-aware! -- very worthwhile for developers of GUI third-party tools to consider building into their products.)

For Linux you *can* run NP++ in Wine but I don't like that idea...so I'm still looking for a kill-BOM (preferably CLI) editor to use on Linux...in the meantime, I make my scripts on Windows and take the option to save them in Linux format. Thanks to formatting my decommissioned laptop HDD as FAT32 and putting it into service as an external USB drive, it's not a showstopper for me...

./heLen