Re: Byte Order Mark - removing via webcat?

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2006


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 67142
interpreted = N
texte = Adam O'Connor wrote: > I have 800 or so files that need their BOM removed. Anyone ever use > webcat to remove the first three bytes from a file? Or whether webcat > can handle files at the byte level? No, WebCat is a text processing system at it's heart (and a Classic Mac one at that). > I can do this with php, but thought I would check across the webcat > community first. Unless you *really* know what you are doing, I would not manually adjust Unicode files blindly. Much better to load them up in a Unicode aware fashion and then write them back out in a non-Unicode encoding. John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Byte Order Mark - removing via webcat? ( Adam O'Connor 2006)
  2. Re: Byte Order Mark - removing via webcat? ( John Peacock 2006)
  3. Byte Order Mark - removing via webcat? ( Adam O'Connor 2006)
Adam O'Connor wrote: > I have 800 or so files that need their BOM removed. Anyone ever use > webcat to remove the first three bytes from a file? Or whether webcat > can handle files at the byte level? No, WebCat is a text processing system at it's heart (and a Classic Mac one at that). > I can do this with php, but thought I would check across the webcat > community first. Unless you *really* know what you are doing, I would not manually adjust Unicode files blindly. Much better to load them up in a Unicode aware fashion and then write them back out in a non-Unicode encoding. John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ John Peacock

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