Re: PHP5.3.0-dev and Unicode BOM.

Quoting Stefan Walk <et@php.net>:

Additionally, i don't think PHP has ignored the BOM before.

Bug #22108 [1] has the gory details. The gist is that this behaves differently depending on whether PHP was configured with --enable-zend-multibyte. With the option, the BOM is parsed, used to detect which UTF encoding is in use, and then discarded. Without the option, it's treated like any other non-PHP content and echoed to stdout. A (very) quick test of the latest PHP 6 snapshot suggests that the current behaviour there is the same as PHP 5 without --enable-zend-multibyte: just output the BOM to stdout without any special handling. It's entirely possible that I've just missed a Unicode-related option there, though. Adam [1] http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=22108 -- Adam Harvey PEAR Profile: <http://pear.php.net/user/aharvey> Blog: <http://xn--9bi.net/>