Re: File.new and encoding

nobu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

It would be UTF-8 encoded BOM, but ruby itself never write it
automatically.
[...]
Can't you show the code?

Trying to reproduce the problem in a smaller example, I figured out, that I'm reading the BOM from one of my source files. Sorry for the confusion. I'm doing something like:

File.open("target","w") do |target|
    File.open("source","r") do |source|
        source.each_line do |line|
            ... some processing ...
            target.write(line)
        end
     end
end


source seems to contain the BOM and it is writen to target. Any hint on how to strip the BOM?

regards,
Achim
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