Renamed.

As Microsoft's tools handles the bytemark, it's a bug in pnet if pnet doesn't.

But to argue against supporting bytemarks (just for the fun of it):

cscc always treats source files as UTF-8 (can also use latin1, if specified), but it does not support the bytemark used in unicode streams. Why? UTF-8 is the encoding used by all .NET technologies, unless otherwise specified.

"A conforming implementation of C# shall interpret characters in conformance with the Unicode Standard[...]." - ECMA-334

And if all the files is treated as UTF-8 by default, there is no need to tell the compiler that the file is UTF-8.

"A protocol SHOULD forbid use of U+FEFF as a signature for those textual protocol elements that the protocol mandates to be always UTF-8, the signature function being totally useless in those cases." - RFC 3629

So if it was the reverse, the sourcefiles being latin1 by default and we'd have to use a commandline switch (or simlar) to determine the encoding to be UTF-8, a bytemark would be great. But now that's not the case, and a bytemark is totally useless, the commandline switch should in any case still override the bytemark.

:)

I have reported this bug to mono,
they say it is a wishlist.
please track this issue as something to add to pnet.
mike
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=70910

--- shadow/70910 2004-12-31 08:44:57.000000000 -0500
+++ shadow/70910.tmp.13646 2004-12-31 11:03:02.000000000 -0500
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 Bug#: 70910
 Product: Mono: Class Libraries
 Version: 1.0
 OS: Debian Woody
 OS Details: Linux debian GNU/Linux UNSTABLE 2.4.21-xfs #13 SMP Tue Aug
26 01:46:14 CEST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux
-Status: NEW  
-Resolution:
-Severity:
+Status: RESOLVED  
+Resolution: INVALID
+Severity: Unknown
 Priority: Wishlist
 Component: System
 AssignedTo: mono-bugs@ximian.com                           
 ReportedBy: mdupont777@yahoo.com              
 QAContact: -email is unavailable-
 TargetMilestone: ---
@@ -20,6 +20,17 @@
 contains the following lines :
 "//
 // System.Collections.Generic.ReadOnlyCollection
 "
 
 It cannot compile.
+
+------- Additional Comments From bmaurer@users.sf.net  2004-12-31
11:03 -------
+It can compile dude
+
+[benm@omega System.Collections.Generic]$ gmcs ReadOnlyCollection.cs
+error CS5001: Program ReadOnlyCollection.exe does not have an entry
+point defined
+Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warnings
+
+
+(it also works with csc)