> Byte Order Marks have stolen hours and days of my life. Me too, to some degree. I have discovered them in a Ruby code base at work, in the middle of a line o

> Byte Order Marks have stolen hours and days of my life. Me too, to some degree. I have discovered them in a Ruby code base at work, in the middle of a line of code (copy pasted), where the Ruby interpreter thinks they are undeclared identifiers. When the code runs, it throws an exception every time that complains of “Undeclared identifier `‘”. The dad-joke of it is that “You gotta sweep for BOMs before they blow up your code.”