lark-parser/lark

Skip BOM (Byte order mark)

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#407 opened on Jul 11, 2019

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Description

Perhaps it should be opt-in, but most usage would expect a BOM is ignored.

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Research direction
Identify where the input text is read in the Lark parser and add logic to strip the UTF 8 BOM (\xef\xbb\xbf) before processing.
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python
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tooling
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1
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1-3 hours
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Python
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70