Hi Recently we have the problem some vendors are delivering their UTF-8-encoded MARC 21 data files (ISO 2709) starting with a byte order mark / BOM (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark). Most vendors I know (e. g. Overdrive) don't include such a BOM, but in Germany some do. When asking them to change this they say "every ILS should be able to handle this". However, when trying to import such a file into Koha the first record is simply ignored. This is especially fatal when importing a data file containing only one record, of course. 1. As far as I know the BOM is not part of the MARC 21 (ISO 2709) format, so there mustn't be any leading BOM. Am I correct? 2. Is there a way within Koha to remove that unwanted BOM or to teach Koha to ignore it and import the data anyway? Of course such a BOM could be manually removed by using sed, but I feel that a) either the vendor shouldn't include the BOM at all or b) Koha "should be able to handle this". What do you think? Best wishes and happy holidays! Michael -- Geschäftsführer · Diplombibliothekar BBS, Informatiker eidg. Fachausweis Admin Kuhn GmbH · Pappelstrasse 20 · 4123 Allschwil · Schweiz T 0041 (0)61 261 55 61 · E mik@adminkuhn.ch · W www.adminkuhn.ch