On Jul 11, 2007, at 15:23 , Alex Queiroz wrote:

On 7/11/07, Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

When I tell the editor to save UTF-8, it inserts some weird "BOM"
character at the start of the file - and thus, any attempt at
programatically processing that file instantly fails. :-(

    Are you sure it's not UTF-16?

GNOME's gedit, for one, has a tendency to put byte order marks at the beginning of every line in UTF8 mode.

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