Re: BOM mark from Windows notepad

[David Kastrup]

Hans Aberg <address@hidden> writes:

> On 12 Nov 2009, at 12:34, Francisco Vila wrote:
>
>>> The attached LY file was created in Windows Notepad, saved in UTF-8
>>> encoding, and I compiled it on Linux with no errors or warnings.
>>>
>>> Do you see an error message when compiling this file?  If so, can you
>>> post the error?
>>
>> I'm afraid I cannot reproduce it with your file.  I see the white
>> rectangle with emacs, as I saw on the others which give errors, but
>> right now I don't keep those problematic files.
>
> On Mac OS X 10.5.8, I can see it using 'less'; it looks like:
> <U+FEFF>\version "2.12.1"
>
> { c }
>
> But emacs 23.1.1 does not show it at all.

C-h C RET RET

gives

Coding system for saving this buffer:
  U -- utf-8-with-signature-unix

Notice the "with-signature" part.

-- 
David Kastrup