[josm-dev] presets file with byte order mark exception

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On 10/27/07, Igor Brejc <igor.brejc at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I start JOSM with my custom preset file which is in UTF-8 and has
> the byte order mark (http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#BOM), I get the
> following exception:

That completely busted. UTF-8 does not need a byte-order-mark, only
UTF-16 does. That windows programs add a BOM anyway even when they're
not supposed to is not something JOSM can do anything about...

In fact, don't think it can, the XML parsing happens on a much lower
level, there is no opportunity for JOSM to mangle the file beforehand.

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/