Re: bidi, hebrew: files may need to be utf-8 with a byte order mark

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Uwe Brauer <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 18:13:30 +0100
> 
> I am trying to contribute to the keyman project and provide a phonetic
> hebrew keyboard layout. It was pointed out to me by the maintainers,
> that I should use 
> 
> ,----
> | One issue is that some of the files may need to be utf-8 with a byte
> | order mark. I would suggest using Visual Studio Code as the editor. It
> | will reduce grief on Mac OS or Linux.
> `----
> 
> I would like to know whether GNU emacs (master) satisfies these
> requirements. I am pretty sure it does, but would like to get a
> confirmation, best by Eli.

I don't think I understand the question.  If you ask whether Emacs
supports UTF-8 encoding with BOM, then the answer is yes: see
coding-system utf-8-with-signature.  Emacs has supported this since
long ago, not just on master.  But this has no direct relation to
bidi.