Re: BOM mark from Windows notepad

[Hans Aberg]

On 13 Nov 2009, at 02:27, Patrick McCarty wrote:

> > > Please keep on touch
> > > until I get a sample again from one of my students.
> >
> > Perhaps they created it in another encoding, and the filled the file
> > with UTF-8?
>
> No, I just used Windows Notepad (on Windows XP) to create the file,
> and saved it with UTF-8 encoding from the drop-down menu.

It would be unlikely that something like that would happen.

> Here is a hexdump:
>
>  $ xxd bom-mark-test.ly
>  0000000: efbb bf5c 7665 7273 696f 6e20 2232 2e31  ...\version "2.1
>  0000010: 322e 3122 0d0a 0d0a 7b20 6320 7d         2.1"....{ c }
>
> I see the BOM mark (ef bb bf), two DOS-style line endings (0d 0a), and
> no newline at the end of file.

So one will have to wait for a a file reproducing the problem. :-)

Subsequent discussions suggest perhaps it is a BOm in the middle of  
the text - if it now is the BOM. In some circumstances, it is easy to  
get spurious invisible characters into a file.

  Hans