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+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+#
+# This test detect Byte Order Mark (BOM). The char is sometime included at the
+# top of files by some text editors to mark them as being UTF-8 encoded.
+# They are not stripped by php 5.x and appear at the beginning of our content,
+# You want them removed!
+# See:
+#   http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/feff/index.htm
+#   http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9954
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use Test::More;
+
+use File::Find;
+
+# Files for wich we want to check the BOM char ( 0xFE 0XFF )
+my $ext = qr/(?:php|inc)/x ;
+
+my $bomchar = qr/\xef\xbb\xbf/ ;
+
+my @files;
+
+find( sub{ push @files, $File::Find::name if -f && /\.$ext$/ }, '.' );
+
+# Register our files with the test system
+plan tests => scalar @files ;
+
+for my $file (@files) {
+    open my $fh, "<", $file or die "Couln't open $file: $!";
+    my $line = <$fh>;
+	if( $line =~ /$bomchar/ ) {
+		fail "$file has a Byte Order Mark at line $.";
+	} else {
+		pass "$file has no Byte Order Mark!";
+	}
+}