[luatex] BOM

[Taco Hoekwater]

Javier Bezos wrote:
> 
>> I could set
>>
>>   \catcode "FEFF = 9
>>
>> as part of the initex initialization code. That would do the trick, yes?
> 
> Yes, provided the source is in uft-8. 

That is irrelevant. \catcodes in luatex are applied after file reading,
and they apply to Unicode characters. The byte representation of BOM in
various encodings may differ, but they certainly all map to U+FEFF.

Best wishes,
Taco