Re: utf-8 description (specify to use utf-8 without BOM)

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On 01/27/11 14:46, mw...@gm... wrote:
> * Having an optional 3 byte sequence at the beginning of a file complicates
>    things a lot. I think a script to "fix" damaged utf-8 files is probably the
>    best solution:
>
>      awk '{if(NR==1)sub(/^\xef\xbb\xbf/,"");print}' text.txt
>      #http://www.linuxask.com/questions/how-to-remove-bom-from-utf-8
>

Hi,

thanks for the script, that is what I suggested dong a couple of days 
ago but I now find I sent from the wrong account so the list apparently 
dropped it.  (Didn't it used to send a warning for that ??)

Since it appears that this BOM is a valid uft-8 white space character 
isn't it conceivable that try to dance around MS non-standard stupidity 
could mess up interpretation of a valid input file or gnuplot script?


regards