utf8-bom: introduce skip_utf8_bom() helper

With the recent change to ignore the UTF8 BOM at the beginning of
.gitignore files, we now have two codepaths that do such a skipping
(the other one is for reading the configuration files).

Introduce utf8_bom[] constant string and skip_utf8_bom() helper
and teach .gitignore code how to use it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/utf8.h b/utf8.h
index e4d9183c5f..e7b2aa4168 100644
--- a/utf8.h
+++ b/utf8.h
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ int same_encoding(const char *, const char *);
 __attribute__((format (printf, 2, 3)))
 int utf8_fprintf(FILE *, const char *, ...);
 
+extern const char utf8_bom[];
+extern int skip_utf8_bom(char **, size_t);
+
 void strbuf_add_wrapped_text(struct strbuf *buf,
 		const char *text, int indent, int indent2, int width);
 void strbuf_add_wrapped_bytes(struct strbuf *buf, const char *data, int len,