strip-bom-buf
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Strip UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM) from a
Uint8Array
From Wikipedia:
The Unicode Standard permits the BOM in UTF-8, but does not require nor recommend its use. Byte order has no meaning in UTF-8.
npm install strip-bom-buf
import fs from 'node:fs';
import stripBomBuffer from 'strip-bom-buf';
stripBomBuffer(fs.readFileSync('unicorn.txt'));
//=> 'unicorn'
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Strip UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM) from a Uint8Array
The npm package strip-bom-buf receives a total of 695,746 weekly downloads. As such, strip-bom-buf popularity was classified as popular.
We found that strip-bom-buf demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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