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Unicode and Byte Order Mark (BOM)

Author: BitRock Support       Date: January 07, 2010 10:52       Tags: Multiple language support
Installer Variables

Certain Unicode-encoded files (typically those created by Windows utilities) will include a BOM. If you read the contents of such a file and need to remove it, you can do as follows: 

            <readFile>
                 <encoding>unicode</encoding>
                 <name>text</name>
                 <path>/path/to/file.txt</path>
             </readFile>
             <setInstallerVariableFromRegEx>
                 <name>text</name>
                 <pattern>\uFEFF</pattern>
                 <substitution></substitution>
                 <text>${text}</text>
             </setInstallerVariableFromRegEx>

 

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