dmd.conf no longer working?

[Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 19:25:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> OK, I think I figured the problem: Unicode!
>
> I have the following repro with DMD64 D Compiler v2.068.2 on 
> Ubuntu 15 (the default installation). If there's no ~/dmd.conf, 
> running 'dmd' alone displays the options.
>
> If there's a zero byte dmd.conf, things still work.
>
> If there's a dmd.conf in Unicode format (I suspect with the two 
> signature bytes), dmd crashes with:
>
> dmd: inifile.c:141: void writeToEnv(StringTable*, char*): 
> Assertion `p' failed.
>
> This was caused by the MonoDevelop editor, which saves files in 
> the format. Emacs also happily loads these files and signals 
> the format with a "U" in the status bar.
>
>
> Andrei

The BOM was such a stupid thing. UTF-8 should have never allowed 
a BOM and the byte order should have been defined for the other 
formats.