DataMystic

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

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.

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

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.

Thanks Simon - much appreciated.

Keith