Character encodings (UTF16)

[Thiago Macieira]

Andras Mantia wrote:
>So you say the files are correct and just the byte order marks is not
>present and this causes the KDE applications to fail loading it? In
>this case the problem is really on the KDE side.

Yes, the file appears to be a valid UTF-16LE file.

UTF-16 files should contain a BOM. UCS-4 files probably as well, even 
though UCS-4LE and UTF-16LE will clash.

Some systems and editors add BOM to UTF-8 as well, but that's not a good 
idea for Unix text files.
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