Annoying UTF8 signature

[kbrazil]

Although I've read in this forum that UTF8 does not need a BOM since there's only one order, Microsoft Office XP and up annoyingly puts a BOM in each UTF8 file it creates. I had hoped I could remove these using TextPipe Pro, but they're still there afer I use the Remove BOM filter. Is there some other way I could get rid of these?

Thanks,
Keith

[DataMystic Support]

Hi Keith,

Use the Hex Dump option of the right-click menu of the File grid to check if the first 3 bytes of the file are indeed EF BB BF.

Check the help for the Remove BOM filter to see what it is trying to remove.

[kbrazil]

Hi Simon,
The first three bytes of the file are indeed EF BB BF. Looking at the help for the Remove Unicode BOM filter it says:

This filter removes the Unicode Byte Order Mark from the start of Unicode files, if it is present

EF BB BF UTF-8.

But when I run this filter on the same file, and then look again at the first three bytes I still see EF BB BF. Is there something else I need to do?

Thanks for your help.

Keith

[DataMystic Support]

Hi Keith,

Please check for a 7.1.5 bug fix shortly.

The comments for UTF-8 were in the code, but the code was never written.

[kbrazil]

Thanks Simon - much appreciated.

Keith