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Lua has no special support for UTF-8, let alone BOM markers. You should
simply tell your users to configure their editors properly or use a
different editor.

On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 14:23 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello Lua,
> 
> i use UTF8 encoding for string data and so my users editing scripts
> should use UTF8 editors. the most well-known windows one, Notepad,
> adds BOM to the beginning of UTF8-encoded files
> 
> may be Lua interpreter should ignore BOM at beginning of file/string
> it executes?
>