[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by HarryT

A little research shows that this is a Unicode "Byte Order Mark" sequence indicating that the file has UTF-8 encoding. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte-order_mark

for details.

Yea, that is pretty standard for a text file to specify encoding. I think if a file doesn't have them it is assumed to be ANSI something or other.

The XML dom processor that perl has should certainly be able to support this accordingly. But I do admit I don't use perl at all...been quite a while.

BOb