Functions

• encoding_type check_bom (const uint8_t * byte, size_t length)

  Checks for a BOM. If not, returns unspecified

  Parameters

  byte the string to process

  length the length of the string in code units

  Returns

  the corresponding encoding

• encoding_type check_bom (const char * byte, size_t length)

• size_t bom_byte_size (encoding_type bom)

  Returns the size, in bytes, of the BOM for a given encoding type.

  Note that UTF8 BOM are discouraged.

  Parameters

  bom the encoding type

  Returns

  the size in bytes of the corresponding BOM