That's a good question. I guess this is happening on Windows? (I haven't tried here, since I'm on OS X) I think BOMs were mandatory in text files on Windows.
2015-06-08 17:53 GMT+02:00 Keegan Witt <keeganw...@gmail.com>: > I've always taken a perverse pleasure in character encoding problems. I > was intrigued by this SO question > <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30538461/why-groovy-file-write-with-utf-16le-produce-bom-char> > on > UTF 16 BOMs in Java vs Groovy. > > It appears using withPrintWriter(charset) produces a BOM whereas new > PrintWriter(file, charset) does not. As demonstrated here: > > File file = new File("tmp.txt")try { > String text = " " > String charset = "UTF-16LE" > > file.withPrintWriter(charset) { it << text } > println "withPrintWriter" > file.getBytes().each { System.out.format("%02x ", it) } > > PrintWriter w = new PrintWriter(file, charset) > w.print(text) > w.close() > println "\n\nnew PrintWriter" > file.getBytes().each { System.out.format("%02x ", it) }} finally { > file.delete()} > > Outputs > > withPrintWriter > ff fe 20 00 > > new PrintWriter > 20 00 > > > Is this difference in behavior intentional? It seems kinda odd to me. > > -Keegan > -- Guillaume Laforge Groovy Project Manager Product Ninja & Advocate at Restlet <http://restlet.com> Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ Social: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> / Google+ <https://plus.google.com/u/0/114130972232398734985/posts>
