BOMScan Version 0.1 Released

AthenaOfDelphi — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:47:48 +0000

Version 0.1 of BOMScan has just been released. BOMScan is a little tool I wrote to scan files for Unicode Byte Order Markers (or BOMs).

To use BOMScan, simply copy BOMScan.EXE into your Windows folder, then open a command prompt, goto the directory you want to scan and then simply type BOMScan and press enter. It will then proceed to scan every file and subdirectory for Unicode BOMs.

The output will look something like this:-

Scanning :- \ReqMan\Project Groups
Scanning :- \ReqMan\Projects
  => Require.bdsgroup (UTF-8)
  => Require.bdsgroup.local (UTF-8)
Scanning :- \ReqMan\Scratch Pad
Scanning :- \ReqMan\Source

The following Unicode BOMs are supported.

Bytes Matched	Description
0×00 0×00 0xfe 0xff	UTF-32, big endian
0xff 0xfe 0×00 0×00	UTF-32, little endian
0xfe 0xff	UTF-16, big endian
0xff 0xfe	UTF-16, little endian
0xef 0xbb 0xbf	UTF-8

Thats it, plain and simple.

Download version 0.1 of BOMScan.exe here (approx. 95KB).

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BOMScan Version 0.1 Released