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Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com> writes:

> It's actually a non-issue for Byron, because the file-reader does a
> BOM-check [IIRC defaulting to ASCII in the absence of a BOM]

GNAT does a BOM-check also. gnatchop does one better, carrying the BOM
from the top of the input file through to each output file.