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'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
'\"
-.so man.macros
.TH source n "" Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands"
+.so man.macros
.BS
'\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below!
.SH NAME
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ or
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.