UTF-8 with BOM

[gsass1]

Hi! I was just testing out your project, I was using Visual Studio. Annoyingly it saves its UTF-8 files with a signature, called Byte Order Mark. When I run it I get this weird bug http://puu.sh/dbGIy/5b176ca61d.png. Encoding was not right, I had to save it without BOM.
What I am proposing: Could we make the documentation more clear on that only UTF-8 without BOM is supported? Or would BOM support be possible? I suppose this is a Node.JS only thing.

[jamuhl]

won't argue this. basically BOM is not recommended by utf-8 specification: http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.2.0/ch02.pdf "Use of a BOM is neither required nor recommended for UTF-8..." (section 2.6).

but will add support for it (removing that first byte on read) like:

fs.readFile(filePath, 'utf8', function (err, file) {
    if (!err) {
        if(file.charCodeAt(0) == 65279) file = file.substr(1);
    }

will add this to next version. hope that will help you.

[gsass1]

Great! Thanks.

[jamuhl]

keeping this open - until done

[jamuhl]

will be solved in next version:

2b9036c#diff-d13dac309fe497f2dcabc168bd0dcad8R26