Re: reading writing UTF files with BOM

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Seems unlikely....

If there was some external characteristic that could be shown, then you
wouldn't need the BOM in the first place.

I suppose IBM i in particular could watch as the file is written, then
update some non-standard attribute.  But I'm pretty sure that doesn't
happen.

Heck the non-standard CCSID attribute is just a promise to the OS made by
the user.  The OS doesn't assign it.

Charles

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 6:55 AM, Jim Franz <franz9000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is it possible to tell (from an OS command or api) that a UTF encoded file
> has BOM characters before reading the file?
> For those not familiar with BOM -
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark
>
> Jim
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