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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Issue with UTF-8 BOM character in text file Post 302657829 by Corona688 on Monday 18th of June 2012 11:34:01 AM
Old 06-18-2012
Make a copy of the file with the BOM character removed. Use that to validate the file in UNIX. You don't have to actually save it permanently.
 

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PPI::Token::BOM(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					PPI::Token::BOM(3)

NAME
PPI::Token::BOM - Tokens representing Unicode byte order marks INHERITANCE
PPI::Token::BOM isa PPI::Token isa PPI::Element DESCRIPTION
This is a special token in that it can only occur at the beginning of documents. If a BOM byte mark occurs elsewhere in a file, it should be treated as PPI::Token::Whitespace. We recognize the byte order marks identified at this URL: <http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#BOM> UTF-32, big-endian 00 00 FE FF UTF-32, little-endian FF FE 00 00 UTF-16, big-endian FE FF UTF-16, little-endian FF FE UTF-8 EF BB BF Note that as of this writing, PPI only has support for UTF-8 (namely, in POD and strings) and no support for UTF-16 or UTF-32. We support the BOMs of the latter two for completeness only. The BOM is considered non-significant, like white space. METHODS
There are no additional methods beyond those provided by the parent PPI::Token and PPI::Element classes. SUPPORT
See the support section in the main module AUTHOR
Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org> COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2001 - 2011 Adam Kennedy. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module. perl v5.18.2 2011-02-25 PPI::Token::BOM(3)
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