Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr) scripsit: > "Some producers of JSON produce JSON-text that starts with a redundant > U+FEFF (ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE, previously known as BYTE ORDER MARK) For "previously" read "also". Indeed, the use of U+FEFF as a zero-width no-break space is deprecated in favor of U+2600 WORD JOINER. See <http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#BOM>. -- John Cowan <cowan@xxxxxxxx> Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. --Calvin, giving Newton's First Law "in his own words"