The Use Case of UTF-8 BOM

I’ve organized my concepts about the UTF-8 BOM encoding format:

• If you are going to include non-alphanumeric content (such as comments or inserts) in your SQL script, UTF-8 encoding would be suitable.
• UTF-8 BOM adds a header to UTF-8, providing an extra marker in the file. This marker allows text editors to recognize whether the file is encoded as UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32.
• Without the BOM, a text editor has to scan the content upon opening a file to guess its encoding. However, the result of this guesswork may not always be accurate. Therefore, choosing UTF8-BOM directly eliminates the risk of the editor guessing incorrectly.

Author: Michael

LastMod: 2023-12-12

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