Re: New FAQ: Removing UTF-8 BOM

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Martin Duerst wrote:

> It can even be typed directly, as:
>
> prompt>  perl -pi~ -0777 -e "s/^\xEF\xBB\xBF//s;" filewithbom.html

  Well, this doesn't work with Perl 5.6 or later because in Perl 5.6
or later, the native representation of characters is UTF-8. Even in
earlier Perl, it has a problem of removing U+FEFF at places other than
the very beginning of files.

  Jungshik

Received on Wednesday, 5 November 2003 09:39:37 UTC