Re: dos2unix and UTF-8 BOM

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.44js.0302170814200.18531-100000@xxxxxxxx>
By author:    Jungshik Shin <jshin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> 
> > Shouldn't 'dos2unix' be patched to also remove this sequence?
> 
>   That would be useful. However, that doesn't work very well if multiples
> files are fed to it (e.g. 'cat a b c | dos2unix'). And, that's why
> we all hate UTF-8 BOM ;-).
> 

Sure it does.  Just remove the UTF-8 "BOM" whereever it appears.

	-hpa
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