Re: Problem with UTF-8-files and creating and appliying patches

Carsten Schuette schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I have a file that contains a UTF-8 marker BOM at the beginning. Modifying,
> committing and checking this file works fine. But when I create a patch of a
> file that was modified in the first few lines, the patch does not contain
> this BOM characters. This is fine. But the patch cannot be applied again,
> because TortoiseMerge does not handle files with the BOM tag correctly.
>
> Any ideas?

What about removing the BOM in the first place? You don't need a BOM for
UTF-8 and it can lead to various problems (like the one you're reporting).

Felix

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