Hugo: UTF-8-BOM In Layouts Results In Blank Page

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Hugo Version: v0.42.2 windows/amd64 BuildDate: 2018-06-28T12:36:53Z
OS: Windows 10

When certain layouts files start with a BOM the pages fail to render. This does not impact all files though.

Our layout folder contains:

• _default
  
  
  
  • baseof.html
  
  
  • home.html
  
  
  • section.html
  
  
  • single.html
  
  
• partials
  
  
  
  • services.html
  
  
• shortcodes
  
  
  
  • partial.html
  
  

The shortcodes and partials work perfectly fine when they have a BOM. In _default baseof.html works fine with a BOM, however home, section & single do not. When they have a BOM the rendered page is just blank. All our content files have BOMs.

The home, section and single files are really simple and look like:

{{ define "main" }}
    {{ .Content }}
{{ end }}

Other people have had this problem https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/baseof-html-block-templates-and-list-types-results-in-empty-pages/5612/12

This can obviously be fixed by changing the encoding of the file but all our projects are standardised on with a BOM so it would be great if all files could be the same.

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[bep]

This looks like a bug in Go: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/28482

I will work around it at our end by trimming away the BOM marker before we send it to the Go parser.

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@bep Just wanted to say thanks for reviewing and fixing this. Hugo is a great tool and all the work done on it is really appreciated!