addUTF-8bomb

http://www.github.com/Vdragon/addUTF-8bomb
An utility to add useless BOM(Byte-Order-Mark) back to UTF-8 files to make stupid (Visual Studio) happy.

Original author

This work is taken from Stack Overflow user Steven R. Loomis's answer to the utf 8 - Adding BOM to UTF-8 files question asked by Stephane and contributed by ccpizza and luiscubal as well at the time 2014/6/15 04:47 UTC+8.

Current maintainer

Ｖ字龍(Vdragon) <Vdragon.Taiwan@gmail.com>

License

This project license is inherited from the Stack Exchange user-contributed content, which is Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0.

Software requirement

• File Free File Command
  • Microsoft Windows
    • File for Windows
  • GNU/Linux distributions
    • Debian-based GNU/Linux distributions
      • software package: file
• Coreutils - GNU core utilities
  • Microsoft Windows
    • CoreUtils for Windows
  • GNU/Linux distributions
    • It should be pre-installed
• GNU Bash

Frequently Asked Questions and answers

Why "addUTF-8bomb" instead of "addUTF-8bom"?

It's just really like a bomb actually ;).