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Bug #15210

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UTF-8 BOM should be removed from String in internal representation

Added by foonlyboy (Eike Dierks) over 5 years ago. Updated almost 5 years ago.

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Target version:
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[ruby-core:89298]

Description

Hi everyone working on the ruby trunk,

I encountered a problem with a BOM (Byte Order Mark) at the front of UTF-8 string data.

We import some CSV from paypal.
They now include a BOM in front of their UTF-8 encoded CSV data.
This BOM is making some troubles.

I believe this to be a bug in how byte data is converted to the ruby internal String representation.

There is a workaround, but this needs to be documented:

IO.read(mode:'r:BOM|UTF-8')

But I'm asking for to improve the UTF-BOM handling:

  • The BOM is only used for transfer encoding at the byte stream level.
  • The BOM MUST NOT be part of the String in internal representation.

BTW: stdlib::CSV chokes on the BOM

I'd like to add some code for a workaround:

class String

    # delete UTF Byte Order Mark from string
    # returns self (even if no bom was found, contrary to delete_prefix!)
    # NOTE: use with care: better remove the bom when reading the file
    def delete_bom!
        raise 'encoding is not UTF-8' unless self.encoding == Encoding::UTF_8
        delete_prefix!("\xEF\xBB\xBF")
        return self
    end


    # returns a copy of string with UTF Byte Order Mark deleted from string
    def delete_bom
        dup.delete_bom!
    end

end

~eike


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Related to Ruby master - Bug #15908: Detecting BOM with non-UTF encodingClosedActions
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