How to ensure that an SPSS Syntax file includes a BOM?

[Ruben Geert van den Berg]

Dear all,

I thought syntax files generated in SPSS (as opposed to, say, Notepad++) always included a Byte Order Mark (BOM). However, this has turned out not to be the case. On what does the exclusion/inclusion of a BOM depend?

TIA!

[Jon K Peck]

Any syntax file saved by Statistics in Unicode includes a BOM.  If you choose to save the file in code page mode (local encoding), it does not.  The default varies with your Statistics version IIRC.


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Dear all,

I thought syntax files generated in SPSS (as opposed to, say, Notepad++)
always included a Byte Order Mark (BOM). However, this has turned out not to
be the case. On what does the exclusion/inclusion of a BOM depend?

TIA!



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[Ruben Geert van den Berg]

Thanks Jon! That seems to work!

[John McConnell-2]

Hi

 

I'll be out of the office today - Thursday 30 May.

 

I will check mail intermittently and get back to you as soon as i can

 

Thanks

John