On Fri, 20 Feb 2015, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

 MvdV> I request that the following option be added to Makenl:

 MvdV> RemoveBOM 1

 MvdV> What should it do?

 MvdV> Remove any UTF-8 Byte Order Mark (BOM).

 WvV> Why should it be an option? Is there a situation where you want to
 WvV> keep the BOM? 

what would happen on big endian machines if they tried to compile a UTF-8
nodelist without a BOM in it? perhaps something is being missed in this
thinking and request to remove the BOM? granted, we're talking about UTF-8
and not UTF-16 or UTF-32 where it might matter... after some bit of time,
yeah, i think i can agree with the request, too...

)\/(ark