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authorjan.nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sourceforge.net>2015-07-15 11:17:12 (GMT)
committerjan.nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sourceforge.net>2015-07-15 11:17:12 (GMT)
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which will be safely substituted by the Tcl interpreter into
.QW ^Z .
.PP
+A leading BOM (Byte order mark) contained in the file is ignored for unicode encodings (utf-8, unicode).
+.PP
The \fB\-encoding\fR option is used to specify the encoding of
the data stored in \fIfileName\fR. When the \fB\-encoding\fR option
is omitted, the system encoding is assumed.