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echo: makenl_ng
to: Andrew Leary
from: Michiel van der Vlist
date: 2015-02-21 18:07:18
subject: Feature request

Hello Andrew,

Saturday February 21 2015 17:53, I wrote to you:

 Mvd>>> The UTF-8 BOM consists of the three bytes 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF.
 Mvd>>> Whenever this sequence appears it should be removed.

 AL>> I will see what I can do on this.  It will probably require some
 AL>> changes in how the input lines are parsed, so I expect it will
 AL>> not be done until 3.5.0 at the earliest.

 MV> Wouldn't it be simpler to do it when writing to the output?

Eh... drop that. I wasn't thinking. It should indeed be done when reading
the input, otherwise MakeNl will not parse the input when a BOM is present.


Cheers, Michiel

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