Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes:
> What do people think about this attached patch?
>
> Andy
>
>
>>From 831c3418941f2d643f91e3076ef9458f700a2c59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com>
> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:41:34 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] detect and consume byte-order marks for textual ports
In case an example is of any help for this discussion, here's some code
that I wrote to consume a possible BOM on contacts data downloaded from
Google:
(define (read-csv file-name)
(let ((s (utf16->string (get-bytevector-all (open-input-file file-name))
'little)))
;; Discard possible byte order mark.
(if (and (>= (string-length s) 1)
(char=? (string-ref s 0) #\xfeff))
(set! s (substring s 1)))
...))
I wonder if I chose to use utf16->string because there wasn't - at that
time - a way of handling the BOM without slurping into a string first?
However it was a long time ago now so I really can't be sure what the
context was.
Regards,
Neil
