Re: [PATCH] Documentation: drop optional BOMs

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Thu May 06 2021 - 21:30:56 EST


On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 04:19:07PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> A few of the Documentation .rst files begin with a Unicode
> byte order mark (BOM). The BOM may signify endianess for
> 16-bit or 32-bit encodings or indicate that the text stream
> is indeed Unicode. We don't need it for either of those uses.
> It may also interfere with (confuse) some software.

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>