Re: New FAQ: Removing UTF-8 BOM

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Jungshik Shin wrote:

> 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

  Sorry. My memory is fuzzy, but IIRC, in Perl 5.6.x, it should work if
your locale is NOT based on UTF-8.  In Perl 5.8 or later, it always fails.
I can't find any machine with perl 5.6.x and UTF-8 locales installed.

  Jungshik

Received on Wednesday, 5 November 2003 09:46:30 UTC