I feel like this should be mentioned in the help file for [text].

Otherwise, it’d be best if [text] simply swallowed the BOM if it’s detected. 
That of course then brings up the question whether Pd should replicate an 
existing BOM when writing? I dunno.

> On Feb 7, 2017, at 1:42 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> From: IOhannes m zmoelnig <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Subject: Re: [PD] un-routable output from [text get]
> Date: February 7, 2017 at 1:40:40 AM MST
> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> 
> 
> On 2017-02-07 09:24, Liam Goodacre wrote:
>> This explanation makes sense, however I am using non ASCII characters in the 
>> textfile (not the one attached, but the one I'm working on), so I guess that 
>> I need the BOM to stay there. 
> 
> no.
> the BOM was just another useless invention.
> UTF-8 (unlike UTF-16) is a byte-stream oriented protocol. it is
> unconcerned by the notion of byte-order.
> 
> gfmasdr
> IOhannes

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