NAME
PerlIO::bom - Automatic BOM handling in Unicode IO
VERSION
version 0.001
SYNOPSIS
open my $fh, '<:bom(utf-8)', $filename;
DESCRIPTION
This module will automate BOM handling. On a reading handle, it will try to detect a BOM and push an appropriate decoding layer for that encoding. If no BOM is detected the specified encoding is used, or UTF-8 if none is given.
A writing handle will be opened with the specified encoding, and a BOM will be written to it.
SYNTAX
This modules does not have to be loaded explicitly, it will be loaded automatically by using it in an open mode. The module has the following general syntax: :bom(encoding)
or :bom
. The encoding may be anything :encoding
accepts.
AUTHOR
Leon Timmermans <leont@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Leon Timmermans.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.