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UTF-8 BOM (byte order mark) Remover

There are some cases you get in trouble with some bytes placed in the beginning of your files.

These are 

That sequence of characters usually appears in UTF-8 encoded text files. They are called as Byte Order Mark characters, which should tell your text viewer how to interpret the following file contents.

However UTF-8 encoding is so strict there are no different byte order, so there is no need BOM mark in these files. The reason why you are facing with this problem because of programs use BOM to indicate that file holds an UTF-8 encoded text.

I make a program to remove these bytes from your files without text editor.

UTF-8 BOM Remover

Requirements:

  • Windows Xp or newer
  • .NET Framework 2.0

You can download the binary or the source.

Creative Commons License
UTF-8 BOM Remover Application is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

 

1 Comment so far

  1. DreamD January 7th, 2010 9:50

    Istenkirálycsászár vagy ! Köszi

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