René, > On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Rene Maurer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The strange thing (at least for me ;-) is, that this two file do start >> with the byte sequence EF BB BF. If i remove this 3 Bytes i can >> compile with success.
The 3 bytes are a Byte Order Mark (aka BOM), signalling that that file is UTF-8 encoded. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark#Representations_of_byte_order_marks_by_encoding Looks like we are supposed to provided UTF-8 encoded files with "no BOM", correct? Peter
