Re: Lilypond doesn't like BOM if a name is the first thing in the document.

[Mats Bengtsson]

Thanks for the bug report. The bug has been fixed in the source code 
repository
and should appear in next development release.

  /Mats

Decade wrote:
> > I'm not top posting.
> >     
>
> (This doesn't work so well without file attachments.)
>
> stuff={
>   a
> }
> \score {
>   \new Staff \stuff
> }
> \version "2.10.20"
>
> If you save that in Microsoft Notepad's default encoding, it works. But if you 
> save it in UTF-8 (because lyrics are in foreign languages), Notepad inserts a 
> BOM, and Lilypond fails to parse it. The beginning identifier "stuff" becomes 
> $EFBBBF"stuff" and the later reference can't find it:
> error: unknown escaped string: `\stuff'
>
> If the document starts with a special character, such as '\' or CRLF, then the 
> Unicode BOF doesn't cause problems.
>
>
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