If you start using the BOM like that for UTF-8, then it's not really a byte order marker anymore.
BTW, OLE/COM is something that didn't click at all for me when I first started encountering it in the '90s. I'm kind of bummed that it seems to have been left behind because it's still a useful technology.
BTW, OLE/COM is something that didn't click at all for me when I first started encountering it in the '90s. I'm kind of bummed that it seems to have been left behind because it's still a useful technology.