https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44291

--- Comment #3 from Bruce Fowler <[email protected]> 2012-03-29 19:29:24 UTC ---
Thanks for the reference.  I have read the Wikipedia article.  It appears to
relate entirely to Unicode encoding.  In relation to UTF-8 it says, "The
Unicode Standard does permit the BOM in UTF-8, but does not require or
recommend its use."  It further states, "the need for a BOM arises in the
context of text interchange, rather than in normal text processing within a
closed environment"

In any case, I don't want my data saved in UTF-8 for this particular
application, but rather in plain ASCII.  I tried setting the Tools/Options/Load
save->HTML compatibility/Character set to Western Europe (ASCII/US), but the
BOM is still there.  I can appreciate the utility of the BOM for information
interchange, but not for local work with Postscript programs and shell scripts.
 Perhaps the appropriate fix is to have an option in "load/save" that says, "I
really want plain ASCII."

I wish I were knowledgeable enough to send you a patch, but the LibreOffice
code is a bit formidable!  Thanks for your interest and help.

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