TemplateFile task removes the byte order mark (BOM) from the generated file

[icnocop]

TemplateFile task removes the byte order mark (BOM) from the generated file

MSBuild.Community.Tasks v1.4.0.56

<TemplateFile Template="C:\File.template" OutputFilename="C:\File.txt" Tokens="@(Tokens)" />

If File.template is UTF-8 encoded with a BOM, the generated file does not have a BOM.

I expected that if the template file has a BOM, then the generated file should also have a BOM.

Thank you.

[pke]

Absolutely! That is especially crucial for me, when creating a .js files from the template that Windows expects to be UTF-8 with BOM.

[mediawolf]

I send UTF-16 XML with BOM to TemplateFile and it produces UTF-8 XML file without BOM. Obviously, a produced file is malformed XML since it header still states that: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?> Eventually XmlQuery fails with this error: There is no Unicode byte order mark. Cannot switch to Unicode. I use such workaround:

        <FileUpdate
            Files="$(...)"
            Regex="[uU][tT][fF]-16"
            ReplacementText="utf-8"
            />

[Shawn1874]

I agree. Something like "Copyright ©2018" will end up as "Copyright ©2018" unfortunately.