#1744: treat byte order mark as zero-width whitespace
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Reporter: igloo | Owner:
Type: feature request | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Compiler (Parser) | Version: 6.8
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Difficulty: Unknown
Os: Unknown | Testcase:
Architecture: Unknown |
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Comment (by guest):
Please note, that according to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark the character U+FEFF is
considered a BOM only if it appears as the first character of a file. In
the context of UTF-8 it simply serves to identify the encoding. So there's
no need to lex it as space, only to ignore it as the first character of a
source file. Thanks.
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