perl foo.pl where foo.pl has bom will work on every platform

./foo.pl if .pl has been assoc-iated with perl will run on win32, and if foo.pl has bom it will be BOM-ed

./foo.pl won't work on unix if foo.pl has bom because shebang won't be detected and perl won't be called, the bom interferes with shebang

editors like notepad/scite... like the BOM ... I like the BOM even though I type in ASCII ... because I copy/paste stuff from the internet, and utf is the only way not to lose info ... most editors don't make files utf by default leading to corruption without BOM

In reply to Re^9: avoid writing 'use utf8' in every script by Anonymous Monk
in thread avoid writing 'use utf8' in every script by reqnode

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