[Slackbuilds-users] Odd character in JSONObject.info file

[Chess Griffin]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:40:34 -0600
Erik Hanson <erik at slackbuilds.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 03:50:26 -0500
> B Watson <yalhcru at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 2/15/13, Chess Griffin <chess at chessgriffin.com> wrote:
> > > If you open up JSONObject.info in nano (not seen in vim), there
> > > is an odd character at the start of the PRGNAM= line:
> > >
> > > 1»¿PRGNAM=JSONObject
> > 
> > It's a BOM (byte order marker). Doesn't show up in vim
> > because vim is unicode-aware and will ignore it. See
> > http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#BOM
> 
> Thanks for the report and information, fixed in my branch.
> 
> 

Thanks for all the replies everybody (I learn something every day --
didn't know about the BOM) and thanks, Erik, for fixing it in your
branch. Not a big deal, I guess, but I thought I'd mention it just in
case the admins wanted to address it.

-- 
Chess Griffin