On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > >> I did a bit more research, and apparently this approach has become more >> blessed again... > > Okay, I experimented with this, but unfortunately less displays the BOM at > the start of the file as a very ugly reverse-video <U+FEFF> at the top of > the screen. > > I think this is arguably a bug in less...
I just noticed that this less bug was reported in Debian 2008 and is still open: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=473227 Earlier today, I sent the GNU less maintainer a two-line patch to the "charset.c" file after my original email to him. The patch prevents the BOM from printing, but less still echoes the BOM correctly to an output device that is not a terminal (output file, pipe, etc.). I attached the patch file to bug report number 473227 so that the Debian less maintainer could have access to it before the GNU less maintainer has a chance to incorporate it (if he decides to). Paul Hardy
