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

Posted by Ruben Geert van den Berg on May 29, 2013; 4:15pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/How-to-ensure-that-an-SPSS-Syntax-file-includes-a-BOM-tp5720460.html

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!