08-26-2017, 05:32 AM
I agree the BOM shouldn't be necessary, but it might help Mike track down the problem. Really you should be able to treat everything as UTF-8 unless you find a marker to the contrary. It's the unicode files without a BOM that are "wrong". (Although apps that don't accept a BOM are suspect :-) Text handling is a minefield best left to the experts.
Andy
Andy