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The first time I saw a BOM (0xEF,0xBB,0xBF) was in Project Gutenberg files. $ curl -sO https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16681/pg16681.txt $ file pg166
by sigjuice 7y ago
The first time I saw a BOM (0xEF,0xBB,0xBF) was in Project Gutenberg files.
$ curl -sO https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16681/pg16681.txt
$ file pg16681.txt
pg16681.txt: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text, with CRLF line terminators
$ head -c3 pg16681.txt | xxd
00000000: efbb bf ...