From a002558d5e096d91c3c4294e30405ad3bce3e5d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carl Hetherington <cth@carlh.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 18:55:52 +0100
Subject: Skip Unicode BOM at the start of subrip files.

---
 src/subrip_reader.cc | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

(limited to 'src/subrip_reader.cc')

diff --git a/src/subrip_reader.cc b/src/subrip_reader.cc
index 5e9e010..3f1c23d 100644
--- a/src/subrip_reader.cc
+++ b/src/subrip_reader.cc
@@ -54,6 +54,17 @@ SubripReader::SubripReader (FILE* f)
 		line = string (buffer);
 		trim_right_if (line, boost::is_any_of ("\n\r"));
 
+		if (
+			line.length() >= 3 &&
+			static_cast<unsigned char> (line[0]) == 0xef &&
+			static_cast<unsigned char> (line[1]) == 0xbb &&
+			static_cast<unsigned char> (line[2]) == 0xbf
+			) {
+			
+			/* Skip Unicode byte order mark */
+			line = line.substr (3);
+		}
+
 		switch (state) {
 		case COUNTER:
 		{
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