On 22/04/10 08:24, John Gage wrote:
Yeesh. What the ding-dong is this?
JohnGage:EFNWebsite johngage$ od -a CopySql.sql
0000000 ? ? ? s e l e c t sp * sp f r o m
0000020 sp m e s h _ d e s c r i p t o r
0000040 s ; nl nl
What are the ?'s. Mon Dieu, what is going on?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark
Tends to get added if you go through a Windows system. Useless for utf-8
afaik. Confuse the hell out of you because various tools parse and hide
them then you pipe the file to a script and everything falls over.
Bunch of scripts available here to remove them:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~mechiel/projects/bomstrip/
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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