Saving as UTF-16/UCS-2 does not include the BOM character
Bug #611583 reported by
kotarou3
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gedit |
Fix Released
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Low
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| gedit (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gedit
Usually when saving a file as UTF-16 and UCS-2, a BOM character will be inserted at the start of the file. This does not happen in gedit.
The BOM would be 0xFFFE for LE and 0xFEFF for BE. Inserting the character is optional in UTF-16 but recommended. It is also required in UCS-2.
This is version 2.28.3
Revision history for this message
| Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in gedit (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Changed in gedit: | |
| status: | Unknown → New |
| Changed in gedit: | |
| importance: | Unknown → Low |
| Changed in gedit: | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
Revision history for this message
| Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in gedit (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Revision history for this message
| Paul White (paulw2u) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in gedit (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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Confirming, but looks like gedit is inserting that characters at the end of the file which might cause some issues as you described, there's an upstream bug for it here: https:/