The detect_bom attribute was added in 1.22. I must admit the the ChangeLog was not very clear about that, as it was part of the new header works and naming all attributes to that didn't look very useful at the time. The docs clearly state:

BOM (or Byte Order Mark) handling is available only inside the "header" method.

The BOM-related changes in versions 1.25, 1.31, 1.33, 1.34, and 1.35 make its use more reliable. Note that BOM-handling is unreliable (or nor working at all) in perl-5.6.x.


Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

In reply to Re^3: Text::CSV_XS and encoding by Tux
in thread Text::CSV_XS and encoding by PeterKaagman

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