Transclusion doesn't strip BOM

multimarkdown.exe --version
MultiMarkdown version 4.6 ...

transclusion.md:

Author: Me
Date: Today
Title: Test

{{with-utf-8-bom.md}}

multimarkdown.exe -f -t html -o transclusion.html transclusion.md

transclusion.html:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8"/>
    <meta name="author" content="Me"/>
    <meta name="date" content="Today"/>
    <title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>

<p>ï»¿
This file has a UTF-8 BOM.</p>

</body>
</html>

with-utf-8-bom.md has a UTF-8 BOM at the beginning of the file.

I'm not sure if this is really an issue, the rendering in current browsers isn't affected (they won't 'display' these characters, but they are in the DOM) but I think transclusion should remove a UTF-8 BOM. I have to admit that I haven't tested the result with other output formats like TeX or ODT.

This happens, of course, only with transcluded files which have no metadata.

fletcher / MultiMarkdown-4

Transclusion doesn't strip BOM #92