BOM in unicode Portfiles causes parsing error

[vince@…]

MacPorts (at least v. 1.8) incorrectly handles initial BOM in UTF-8/Unicode Portfiles, causing a parse error in portindex. Ideally, the BOM should be ignored or used to set the correct encoding.

[toby@…]

Tcl doesn't handle it, nothing we can do. As a simple test just create a file with a BOM:

puts "hello world"

tclsh will generate the following error:

invalid command name "puts"
    while executing
"puts "hello world""
    (file "hello.tcl" line 1)