If you want to write up a patch to recognize a UTF8 BOM and ignore it, go ahead. You can just modify the Tokenizer class to recognize and discard a BOM appearing at the beginning of the input.
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Marc Gravell <marc.grav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > OK... is there any way it /could/ silently ignore the BOM? ;-p > > I can try to advise the caller to use files without BOMs, but protoc > reads UTF8 anyway it seems reasonable to accept a BOM? > > Marc > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to protobuf@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---