How can I remove BOM if I am going convert UTF8 to ASCII

mlibot · 08-04-2009, 08:57 PM

hi good day.. hope you help me..
im trying to convert utf8 format to ascii and i use native2ascii.exe to convert utf8 to ascii but my problem is.. is still the BOM has not been removed.. what is the best to do..? to remove the BOM..?

Violin · 08-04-2009, 09:47 PM

I wish to know the answer, too. Currently I use a hex editor to remove or add the BOM manually.

paulsm4 · 08-04-2009, 09:56 PM

Suggestion:

http://www.stanford.edu/~laurik/fsmbook/errata/BOM.html

Quote:

If you look at your UTF-8 file in a text editor such as Emacs, you see that the first character is a strange blob. You can remove it with a Control-D and save the file. Everything should work fine without the BOM.
0xEF 0xBB 0xBF

Two other interesting links:
http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html (search down to "Byte Order Mark (BOM) FAQ")

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte-order_mark

'Hope that helps .. PSM

mlibot · 08-06-2009, 08:21 PM

Good morning Guyz... thanks for the information... i need to do this in php.. but my problem is how to connect this on html.. how to start coding because i do not know how to start and how to connect.. help me guyz..