Re: BOM mark from Windows notepad

[Hans Aberg]

On 13 Nov 2009, at 10:08, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote:

> I think changing the LilyPond parser to support BOM in the middle  
> (ie not at the beginning) of the file is very hard. Actually if it  
> is not at the beginning, then it should be treated as a regular  
> character, which might not be present just anywhere in the file.

Why would that be? Did you not have a Flex generated .l file? If the  
input .l file is in UTF-8 and Flex in 8-bit mode, add a rule
  "<BOM>" {}
where <BOM> is the UTF-8 representation of the BOM. It will than add  
act as space, breaking tokens, but otherwise ignored. So it acts a  
zero-width space.

  Hans