Mvd> * Originally in NETMAIL001   
    Mvd> * Crossposted in MAKENL_NG   
      
    Mvd> Hello Andrew,   
      
    Mvd> I request that the following option be added to Makenl:   
      
    Mvd> RemoveBOM 1   
      
    Mvd> What should it do?   
      
    Mvd> Remove any UTF-8 Byte Order Mark (BOM).   
      
      
    Mvd> Why?   
      
    Mvd> Now that a project has started with a daily nodelist in UTF-8 in Z2,   
    Mvd> nodelist clercks need a simple way to edit UTF-8 text files. Some UTF-8   
    Mvd> capable editors insist on adding a BOM to the edited file. Adding a BOM   
    Mvd> to an UTF-8 file is an outdated concept, but some editors, notably,   
    Mvd> Notepad, insist on adding one anyway. For most applications this does no   
    Mvd> harm, so people are not inclined to dump their favorite editor in favour   
    Mvd> of one that does not insist on adding a BOM. For nodelist processing this   
    Mvd> is a show stopper. A BOM interferes with nodelist processing. There   
    Mvd> should be no BOM in the nodelist. Forcing nodelist clercks to change   
    Mvd> editors or jump through some other hoops just to get rid of a BOM raises   
    Mvd> a threshold that may stop them from participating in the project. If   
    Mvd> MakeNl had the ability to remove BOMs, they could continue to use their   
    Mvd> favorite editor without having to worry about BOMs.   
      
      
    Mvd> Notes:   
      
    Mvd> Normally a BOM would only be found at the start of a file, but some   
    Mvd> nodelist clercks use scripts that concatenate files, so a BOM might also   
    Mvd> appear in the middle of a file. It may even be found in the middle of a   
    Mvd> line.   
      
    Mvd> The UTF-8 BOM consists of the three bytes 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF. Whenever this   
    Mvd> sequence appears it should be removed.   
      
      
    Mvd> Cheers, Michiel   
      
   I will see what I can do on this.  It will probably require some changes in   
   how the input lines are parsed, so I expect it will not be done until 3.5.0 at   
   the earliest.   
      
   Regards,   
      
   Andrew   
      
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