UTF-8 with BOM

[Lisible]

Is there any way to add BOM (Byte-Order Mark) to a UTF-8 file from the editor ?
I encountered a situation where I needed to write a file with BOM and I haven't found a built-in way to do it.

If there is no current way to do it, I might do a PR for it if that feature is desired.

[CBenoit]

Indeed, I don’t think you can do that as of now. A simple enough feature that can come in handy however. PR welcomed 🙂

EDIT: Some background for anyone interested: http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/ch02.pdf

Not recommended and as such not default, but I imagine a new command for that. :add-utf8-bom?

[Lisible]

I was indeed thinking of a new command that would add it if not present. I'll try to find some time to work on that.

[archseer]

In vim this is a separate config setting called "bomb": https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicode