VIM removal of Unicode ('bomb')

[Noam Rathaus]

Shachar,

Not my invention :)

do under vim
 :help bomb

It states as you said that the name is BOM

On Wednesday 04 February 2009 19:21:41 Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Noam Rathaus wrote:
> > I am using:
> > VIM - Vi IMproved 6.1 (2002 Mar 24, compiled Jan 15 2003 08:05:27)
> >
> > And I have a few unicode characters (unicode encoding 'bomb'/marker) at
> > the beginning of the file that I want to remove.
> > 0000000 bbef 3cbf 4421 434f 5954 4550 6820 6d74
> >
> > I m referring to 0xbb, 0xef, 0x3c, 0xbf
> >
> > I would to remove them, but opening the file with vim doesn't show them -
> > as they are markers it hides.
> >
> > Can anyone help me get rid of them?
> >
> > Any solution (not just using VIM) would be great.
>
> I would use khexedit, myself, or set the locale to C and open with vim.
>
> Just a technical note: It's "BOM" - Byte Order Mark. I've never heard of
> bomb (in the Unicode context).
>
> Shachar


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