UTF-8 Pragma

hydraMax · 06-04-2011, 07:37 PM

I was curious: Is there some kind of universally recognized pragma that one can insert at the beginning of a text document to designate it to be UTF-8 encoded (or any other encoding)? I've seen certain editors insert encoding comments, and one or two compilers that have an encoding pragma. But I was wondering if anyone has tried to establish some kind of universal tag format for text documents.

clvic · 06-05-2011, 12:30 PM

Hi never heard of a universal header for something like this, although I'd also like it.
What I do for text documents I use, is inserting some accented character at the beginning of the file, so that I quickly understand whether the text editor I'm using correctly understood the encoding or not.