[Koha] Byte Order Mark issue importing patrons

Galen Charlton gmc at esilibrary.com
Sat Apr 27 06:49:40 NZST 2013


Hi,

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Robin Sheat <robin at catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
> I think it'd be enough for Koha to ignore (or even understand) the BOM.
> No reason for it to be syspref controlled if you can make it do the
> right thing. It _might_ even be enough to tell it to open the file as
> UTF-8.

I agree -- Koha should just Do The Right Thing.  At first glance, it
looks like File::BOM might be useful, though we should think about
whether we want to support arbitrary character encodings.

[1] http://search.cpan.org/~mattlaw/File-BOM-0.14/

Regards,

Galen
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