Re: fscanf and special characters

[CdeMills]

David Grundberg-3 wrote:
> 
> On 06/22/2010 09:41 AM, CdeMills wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> while reading a file with in = fscanf(fid, "%c");
>>
>> I got the warning message "range error for conversion to character
>> value",
>> because the file starts with, in hex, "0xEF 0xEB 0xBF" whose ascii names
>> are
> 
> Aren't those bytes the UTF-16 endian magic code?  Try converting the 
> file to UTF-8 using iconv.
> 
> 
It is indeed the BOM (Byte Order Mark), see
http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html, see question "When a BOM is used, is it
only in 16-bit Unicode text?" for a list of encoding markers. I missquoted
the beginning string, it was EF BB BF, which is the UTF-8 BOM 

Regards

Pascal


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