Subject Re: [firebird-support] UTF8 database and extended characters in metadata
Author Daniel Albuschat
2008/11/13 Helen Borrie <helebor@...>:

> For Linux you *can* run NP++ in Wine but I don't like that idea...so I'm
> still looking for a kill-BOM (preferably CLI) editor to use on Linux...

Start vim, type

:help bom
:help fileformat

When you :set nobomb and :set fileformat=dos, you can easily write
Windows text-files without byte order mark on any operating system
with Vim.

Regards,

Daniel Albuschat

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