Gurusamy> John Dlugosz asked me if Perl will in future support a utf8
Gurusamy> byte-order-mark in source files. I'd expect that the shebang
Gurusamy> line will be rendered useless on most Unix systems if someone
Gurusamy> did this to a script. Anyone have any ideas?
In our system, any occurances of 0xFEFF (poorly designed software can
accumulate BOM's) at the beginning of text converted from UTF-8 to UTF-16 are
removed. The user is given the option of adding a BOM when saving UTF-8 text
because there are apparently some widely available, but poorly designed
programs out there that check for a BOM after converting UTF-8 to UTF-16.
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