Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 20:29:34 +0000 From: Benjamin A'Lee <lists@benalee.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing BOM from UTF-8 Message-ID: <1140294574.8388.8.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200602181435.07066.gerard@seibercom.net> References: <20060218111849.15E6.GERARD@seibercom.net> <1140283470.17023.7.camel@ariadne.benalee.co.uk> <200602181435.07066.gerard@seibercom.net>
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On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 14:34 -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: > Maybe I am doing something wrong, but it does not appear to be working=20 > correctly. I named the file nobom.sh and put it in the same directory=20 > as the files I want to convert. I also set the program permission to=20 > 0755. >=20 > typing the p[program name does nothing; I have to precede it with=20 > 'perl'. Even then, it does not appear to work correctly. In the=20 > following example, the file is parsed, but not converted. Sorry; try changing the first line to #!/usr/local/bin/perl > perl nobom.sh testfile >=20 > Am I doing something incorrectly here? Try: cat testfile | nobom.sh Though the way you describe appears to work here: $ cat bom-testfile | hd 00000000 ef bb bf 23 20 42 4f 4d 20 74 65 73 74 20 66 69 |...# BOM test = fi| 00000010 6c 65 0a |le.| 00000013 $ bomkill.pl bom-testfile | hd 00000000 23 20 42 4f 4d 20 74 65 73 74 20 66 69 6c 65 0a |# BOM test fil= e.| 00000010 Ben --=20 Termisoc Tech Officer: <http://termisoc.org/> My Homepage: <http://benalee.co.uk/> "People demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of thought which they have but seldom use." -- S=C3=B8ren Kierkegaard=20
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