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Make emacs not remove the BOM from XML files

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Mar 15, 20262207 views
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I use Emacs to edit an XML file that is also read by another application. The other application requires that the file start with a byte-order marker (BOM). However, Emacs seems to remove the BOM every time I edit the file. Is there a way to make Emacs leave the BOM alone?

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Fix for: Make emacs not remove the BOM from XML files

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Emacs will write a BOM or not depending on what coding system it is using. Emacs automatically chooses the coding system it uses when visiting a file. You can change the coding system to utf-8-with-signature, which will tell Emacs to write the BOM. …

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