Automatically add / strip BOM

[vsemozhetbyt]

Node does not add or strip BOM when reading or writing utf16le or utf8 files. User must do it manually in all the text IOs.

It is especially inconvenient with streams: for example, in reading huge file line by line, user must check the BOM or some variabe (alreadyStripped) for each line.

Would it be handy to entrust these actions to Node?

[sindresorhus]

You can use strip-bom or strip-bom-stream, but I agree it would be nice if it were in core.

[vsemozhetbyt]

@sindresorhus
Thank you.

Well, it do seems as a bit excessive way to add / remove just one character...

In text2file / file2text single gulping we can as well use '\uFEFF' + text / text.replace(/^\uFEFF/, '').

For strems to add the whole transform stream in the chain could be as resource consuming as an additional operation in each event handler call.

[evanlucas]

Closing as this can be done easily in userland.