UTF-8 BOM documentation

[pfusik]

cito accepts source files with and without the UTF-8 BOM.
The doc currently recommends using them, because that makes the UTF-8 encoding explicit, which helps many tools, especially on Windows.
There are pros and cons of the BOM which can be discussed here.

[tialaramex]

Do you have some examples of "many tools, especially on Windows" ? I think this helps clarify.

[pfusik]

Okay, I've been mistaken. I now checked Visual Studio 2019, Git, TortoiseGit, Windows 10 Notepad, MSYS2 tools such as grep/less/cat and they all read UTF-8 w/o BOM. I use SciTE which supports a ton of programming languages and it can be easily configured to default to UTF-8. Windows more and findstr don't support UTF-8 regardless of the BOM.

I've just removed the recommendation. Thanks a lot!