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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing dupes within 2 delimited areas in a large dictionary file Post 302740961 by gimley on Friday 7th of December 2012 08:50:55 AM
Old 12-07-2012
Hello,
I found the problem. BOM: Byte Order mark
Normally under windows a UTF-8 file starts with a BOM (byte order mark, U+FEFF), as is standard for UTF-8 files on Windows systems. I concede that it is legal for them to do so, but it is utterly pointless since the byte order is determined by the formal specification of the UTF-8 representation itself. And it just happens that, unlike the rest of UTF-8, an initial BOM will screw up a Unix system. And Perl is supposed to be
Quote:
"an oasis of Unix culture in the desert of can't-get-there-from here" (Larry Wall, probably slightly misquoted).
Using a hex editor I removed the FEFF and it worked like a charm.

On Linux you should have no problem, since this aberration does not exist ina Unix system

Many thanks for trying to solve the mystery.

As an aid to all of us who suffer the tyranny of the WinOS system, here is a useful link:
HTML Code:
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=599720.
This offers two solutions for the problem. Googling
Quote:
"perl bom" or "perl File::BOM"
comes up with more if needed.
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

gnome-dictionary

gnome-dictionary(1)						   User Commands					       gnome-dictionary(1)

NAME

       gnome-dictionary - look up words in an online dictionary

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-dictionary [gnome-std-options]

DESCRIPTION

       The Dictionary application enables you to look up an online dictionary for the definitions and correct spelling of words.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       gnome-std-options       Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications.  See gnome-std-options(5) for more information.

OPERANDS

       None.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Launching Dictionary

       example% gnome-dictionary

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnome-dictionary       Executable for Dictionary.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-dictionary	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Dictionary Manual

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

       gnome-std-options(5)

NOTES

       Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems  Inc., 2003.

SunOS 5.10							    30 Sep 2003 					       gnome-dictionary(1)
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