id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
8836	boost::property_tree and BOM	nikita.trophimov@…	Sebastian Redl	"boost::property_tree::ptree can't handle files with BOM (at least for UTF-8).

{{{
#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>
#include <boost/property_tree/ini_parser.hpp>

#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
    try
    {
        boost::filesystem::path path(""helper.ini"");
        boost::property_tree::ptree pt;
        boost::property_tree::read_ini(path.string(), pt);
        const std::string foo = pt.get<std::string>(""foo"");
        std::cout << foo << '\n';
    }
    catch (const boost::property_tree::ini_parser_error& e)
    {
        std::cerr << ""An error occurred while reading config file: "" << e.what() << '\n';
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }
    catch (const boost::property_tree::ptree_bad_data& e)
    {
        std::cerr << ""An error occurred while getting options from config file: "" << e.what() << '\n';
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }
    catch (const boost::property_tree::ptree_bad_path& e)
    {
        std::cerr << ""An error occurred while getting options from config file: "" << e.what() << '\n';
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }
    catch (...)
    {
        std::cerr << ""Unknown error \n"";
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }
}
}}}

'''helper.ini'''

foo=str

'''Output'''

An error occurred while getting options from config file: No such node (foo)"	Bugs	new	To Be Determined	property_tree	Boost 1.54.0	Problem		property_tree