It'd be reasonable to have 'diff' ignore byte-order-marks, just as it already ignores things like white space, when given a new option to do that.
Someone would have to write the code and documentation, though.
- [bug-diffutils] Bug#680990: Diff does not show BOM differ... Santiago Vila
- Re: [bug-diffutils] Bug#680990: Diff does not show B... Paul Eggert
- Re: [bug-diffutils] Bug#680990: Diff does not sh... jeanmichel . 123
