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Bug 206511

Summary:	BOM header (utf8)
Product:	editor	Reporter:	maxym
Component:	-- Other --	Assignee:	Milutin Kristofic <mkristofic>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	7.1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:

Description maxym 2011-12-18 15:01:48 UTC

I found that Netbeans doesn't recognize BOM header for at least utf8 files.
For utf8 files, it is sequence of the first 3 bytes in a file: 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF.
In result file is loaded with additional '-' character on the top

See more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark#UTF-8

Comment 1 Jiri Prox 2011-12-19 08:25:14 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 161015 ***