Hello Wilfred!
Wednesday April 22 2020 18:40, you wrote to me:
Hi Vincent,
On 2020-04-22 16:29:49, you wrote to Paul Hayton:
This file has the first 3 characters that are NOT normal text.
They are in fact (in hex) : ef bb bf
The first 16 chars are (in Hex and display form) :
00000000 ef bb bf 53 55 42 4a 20 4d 4f 44 2d 55 50 44 0d
|...SUBJ MOD-UPD.|
The dots give the clue but the hex chars ef bb bf are not A- Z, a
- z, 0 - 9 and space etc.
Only use a text editor and not a word processor type editor.
It's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark#UTF-8
Since your on linux it should be easy to filter them out in your
scripts:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/381230/how-can-i-remove-the-b om-from-a-utf-8-file
It is not a script but a program and I cannot examine every character in a submission for valid chars as the range outside a-x, A-Z, 0-9 is too much to screen for. Then there is the issue of what to do , more forwards 1 until a vaild char is presented ?
The correct solution is to use a text editor in Windows, *nix or any other platform..
If I can do it with my systems ( Linux, Win 10, OSX, IBM ) then I have to assume every one else can.
Vincent
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