[Koha-bugs] [Bug 24330] New: When importing patrons from CSV, automatically strip BOM from file if it exists

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24330

            Bug ID: 24330
           Summary: When importing patrons from CSV, automatically strip
                    BOM from file if it exists
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           Product: Koha
           Version: master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: Tools
          Assignee: koha-bugs at lists.koha-community.org
          Reporter: kyle at bywatersolutions.com
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org

We have a partner that exports UTF-8 CSV files, and is experiencing the same
thing as the author of this article:
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-quick-tale-about-feff-the-invisible-character-cd25cd4630e7/

In short, Excel is inserting an invisible UTF-8 character at the start of the
file, so that the column name "cardnumber" is actually named
"\x{feff}cardnumber", causing "cardnumber" to be blank.

A simple solution is provided here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24390034/remove-bom-from-string-with-perl

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