Bug#261413: ITP: utf8script -- binfmt_misc plugin for UTF-8 scripts

2004-07-26 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Matthew Garrett wrote: Eh? A BOM (Byte Order Marker) is only needed where there's confusion about what the byte order is. It's needed for UTF-16 (which is a fairly decent demonstration of why UTF-16 is a Bad Thing), but not UTF-8. There may be desirable to mark a file as being in UTF-8, but calli

Bug#261413: ITP: utf8script -- binfmt_misc plugin for UTF-8 scripts

2004-07-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
Martin v. Loewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This package provides an additional binary format for Linux: scripts > which start with an UTF-8 signature (aka BOM), i.e. with the byte > sequence \xef\xbb\xbf#!. Eh? A BOM (Byte Order Marker) is only needed where there's confusion about what the by

Bug#261413: ITP: utf8script -- binfmt_misc plugin for UTF-8 scripts

2004-07-25 Thread Martin v. Loewis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: utf8script Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.dcl.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/home/loewis/utf8script-1.0.tgz * License : GPL Description : binfmt_misc plugin for