Is it possible to run a SQLPLUS script on a file encoded as UTF-8 with BOM
I'm trying to run a collection of scripts which have been auto-generated from a large number of sources. Unfortunately some of these have been generated as UTF-8 with BOM. I have in place a system for automatically removing the BOM, but its a bit of a messy process. Failing to remove the BOM generates the error: SP2-0042: unknown command "" - rest of line ignored. Is it possible to run SQLPLUS on a script file which has a BOM? It is possible to run SQLPLUS with such script, but SQLPLUS will indicate an error on the first line because of BOM . Probably you wanted to ask if you can avoid this