Re^5: How do you open/read a text , without knowing its encoding, and remove any BOM if its utf, what do you use?


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Re^5: How do you open/read a text , without knowing its encoding, and remove any BOM if its utf, what do you use?

by CountZero (Bishop)

on Apr 21, 2013 at 11:39 UTC ( [id://1029753]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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in thread How do you open/read a text , without knowing its encoding, and remove any BOM if its utf, what do you use?

Can you expand on why String::BOM is not a (good) solution to your question?

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