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Bug 161010

Summary:

Unicode BOMs not detected in ordinary text files

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

David Williams <david_williams>

Component:

Resources

Assignee:

Platform-Resources-Inbox <platform-resources-inbox>

Status:

RESOLVED DUPLICATE

QA Contact:

Severity:

major

Priority:

CC:

thatnitind

Version:

3.2

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
this zip contains the presentations.data file.	none

Description David Williams

2006-10-16 02:37:40 EDT

I'll attach a sample, in a zip file to avoid corruption, called presentations.data that has an initial BOM indicating UT-16. 

Even if the contents was not XML, it is still supposed to be read in as UTF-16, according to Unicode spec's. 

And, further, since after the BOM there is an XML Declaration, the file should be detected as "xml content type". 

If I explicitly use preferences to day "data" extensions are xml, everything works as expected, but that should not be required for a file like this. 

I fear I'm missing something, since this is a pretty big bug and am surprised its existed so long.

Comment 1 David Williams

2006-10-16 02:38:43 EDT

Created attachment 52016 [details]
this zip contains the presentations.data file.

Comment 2 John Arthorne

2006-10-16 10:27:02 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 160614 ***