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From: "Øystein Walle" <oystwa@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve user-manual html and pdf formatting
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 21:38:48 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20140104T223713-502@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20140104211834.GC12251@google.com

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thomas Ackermann wrote:
> 
> > --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
> >  <at>  <at>  -1,5 +1,5  <at>  <at> 
> > -Git User Manual
> > +&#65279;Git User Manual
> 
> Why?
> 
> Puzzled,
> Jonathan
> 

That's a Unicode Byte Order Mark. In UTF-8 it serves no purpose except
to indicate that a file is in fact UTF-8. A job which most editors
don't need help with.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark

Øsse

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-04 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-04  9:07 [PATCH] Improve user-manual html and pdf formatting Thomas Ackermann
2014-01-04 21:18 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-01-04 21:38   ` Øystein Walle [this message]
2014-01-04 21:54     ` Andreas Schwab
2014-01-04 22:12       ` Øystein Walle
2014-01-05  8:22 ` Aw: " Thomas Ackermann
2014-01-06 17:20 ` Junio C Hamano

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