Bug #30176 Manual does not contain a note about MySQL currently don't support BOM with UTF8
Submitted: 1 Aug 2007 10:02 Modified: 2 Aug 2007 17:43
Reporter: Sveta Smirnova Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Documentation Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:4.1, 5.0, 5.1 OS:Any
Assigned to: Paul DuBois CPU Architecture:Any

[1 Aug 2007 10:02] Sveta Smirnova
Description:
Currently we don't support BOM with UTF8. But manual does not contain any note about it. Just note for UCS2.

How to repeat:
Open http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-unicode.html

Suggested fix:
Add note we does not support BOM with UTF8 too.
[2 Aug 2007 17:43] Paul DuBois
Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been addressed in the documentation. The updated documentation will appear on our website shortly, and will be included in the next release of the relevant products.