SUMMARY When some text files are saved files are corrupted. Three non printable octets are being inserted at the staer of the file. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. add a file to a project e.g. test_in.awk 2. add source to the ouside of kdevelop e.g. echo "BEGIN {}" > test_in.awk 3 check the contents of the file: hexdump -C test_in.awk 00000000 42 45 47 49 4e 20 7b 7d 0a |BEGIN {}.| 4. open the file in kdevelop 5. delete the space between Gegin and {, then re-type it. 6. save the file 5. check the contents of the file again: hexdump -C test_in.awk 00000000 ef bb bf 42 45 47 49 4e 20 7b 7d 0a |...BEGIN {}.| OBSERVED RESULT three octets are inserted at the begining of the file EXPECTED RESULT the two file dumps should be identical SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora 43 (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version:5.22.4-1.fc34 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.85.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The problem seems to affect any test file of many different extantions e.g. .h.in, .bash ...
Created attachment 141220 [details] KDevelop BOM Settings Hello, thanks for the bug report! `EF BB BF` is the UTF8 BOM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark#UTF-8). Make sure that Tools > Add Byte Order Mark (BOM) is unchecked (1st screenshot in image) and that Enable byte order mark (BOM) is disabled in the Editor open/save settings
Thanks,the problem was that BOM was checked. I have checked some .cpp/.h files I have edited and they also contain the BOM so gcc must cope with this, which is why it appeared only come file where being altered.