Jerome Simeon
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2010-06-07
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galax-run bombs out with an error if it encounters the Byte Order Mark (BOM for short) after the first two bytes of a UNICODE file.
Gedit places a Byte Order Mark (BOM for short) at the end of (or near the end of) the file.
Technically, reading a Byte Order Mark (BOM for short) anywhere in a UNICODE data stream should be ignored, since it is simply
redundantly restating it's UNICODE.