By the rules of Unicode, that character, if not the very first character of the
file, should be treated as a “zero-width non-breaking space”, it is NOT a BOM
character there.
It’s presence in the files is almost certainly an error, and being caused by
broken software or software processing file
On 2021-08-19 14:07, Robin Becker wrote:
Channeling unicode text experts and xml people:
I have xml entity with initial bytes ff fe ff fe which the file command says is
UTF-16, little-endian text.
I agree, but what should be done about the additional BOM.
A test output made many years ago seem
