Hi Gianni, there is an ASN for it:

$NO_BOM_UTF8

gianni said This instruction is now by default adding at the beginning of first line of the file some unreadable characters related to Unicode BOM (byte order mark) and it was introduced in 9.6.04.

 The old behavior in Uniface 9.2 was actually a BUG:

• BUG: 27499 - filedump, lfiledump with UnicodeFormat UTF8 writes no BOM when $sys_charset=UTF8

gianni said What about compatibility with the past? I've looked into assignment files switches, always used in the past in similar situations to maintain compatibility but with no luck.

 In case you want the "old" behavior back then you have the options to either use the ASN setting $NO_BOM_UTF8=true or the Pro instruction filedump/nobom. Hope this helps. Regards, Daniel

Great! I've searched into CHM file for: - nobom - NOBOM - no_bom - NO_BOM with no clue... Thanks guys, you've just saved my day! :-) Gianni

Hi Gianni,  I'll add a link to from the filedump to the $NO_BOM_UTF8 setting so it's easier to find from the relevant Proc. Search Tip: If you are expecting to find something in the CHM file, it can also help to truncate a term (NO_BOM* etc.), or generalize the search a bit (BOM instead of NO_BOM etc.) Also, feel free to use the Feedback link at the bottom of every page to suggest improvements to the documentation. Hope this helps, Barbara Douma Information Developer, Uniface

Barbara, thanks for your input...and for creating such link into filedump documentation. I've always used CHM help file intuitively without looking for any document describing its usage. It's still a little obscure to me having a subject named $NO_BOM_UTF8 why it should be found "BOM" or "NO_BOM*" while it shouldn't "NO_BOM"...probably I should dedicate a couple of minutes to study search functionality available within standard Windows CHM viewer. Thanks all for your help! Gianni

The search functionality in CHM files ignores symbols such as $ and # and \\.  However, it doesn't ignore underscores, so when you look for NO_BOM, it won't find it. You need to use a wildcard like the asterisk (*), hence NO_BOM* works. My real point about searching more generically is that any topic that is going to be discussing the BOM is likely to include that word somewhere in the text. So instead of trying to think about what kind of name developers might invent for a switch, just search for a word that is likely to occur somewhere in that page.  Some other search tips:

• Enclose phrases within quotation marks (for example, "complex parameters").
• To restrict the search to the title, select Search titles only.
• To widen the search to include plurals or variations of the word, select Match similar words.
• You can use wildcards * (multiple characters) and ?
• To see where a topic is located in the Contents, click the Locate button.

Regards --- B.