[Koha-bugs] [Bug 10117] New: Byte Order Mark breaks Patron Import

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10117

            Bug ID: 10117
           Summary: Byte Order Mark breaks Patron Import
    Classification: Unclassified
 Change sponsored?: ---
           Product: Koha
           Version: 3.8
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: Patrons
          Assignee: koha-bugs at lists.koha-community.org
          Reporter: jcoehoorn at york.edu
                CC: gmcharlt at gmail.com, kyle.m.hall at gmail.com

If a csv file for importing patrons has a byte order mark, the patron import
tool will not parse the header row correctly, causing additional errors for
every record in the file. Byte order marks are invisible in most text editors,
and created automatically by a lot of reporting tools, especially on newer
versions of Windows.

To reproduce: 

Create a valid patron import file that includes a byte order mark (Notepad++
can alter an existing file to include one, if needed). Try to import that
patrons and observe the error. Now re-save the same file without the byte order
mark. Try again to import the file, and observe that it succeeds.

Based on my Google searches when I encountered the problem, I am confident a
lot of other people have also run into this issue, but not known how to
identify or resolve it.

I observed this bug in 3.8. I don't have newer versions to test against, but I
expect it still exists today in more recent versions.

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