id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	difficulty	ghcversion	platform
749	Package check cannot handle byte-order-mark in .cabal file	guest		"When I edit a .cabal file with Notepad (Windows XP) and save it as UTF-8, Notepad writes a byte-order-mark at the start of the file. When testing the package for upload, I got the message:
  400 Error in upload
  line 1: unrecognised field or section: ""\65279Name:           GeBoP""

Henk-Jan van Tuyl
"	defect	new	normal		Cabal library	1.8.0.6	normal				unknown		Windows