The patch below removes a utf-8 BOM mark. Avoid touching it as the BOM is invisible, and copy/pasting might not work. It is needed because old compilers treat the BOM as garbage instead of whitespace. --- tesseract-3.01/ccutil/strngs.h.orig 2012-05-24 15:13:22.743808379 +0200 +++ tesseract-3.01/ccutil/strngs.h 2012-05-24 15:16:54.468858282 +0200 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -/********************************************************************** +/********************************************************************** * File: strngs.h (Formerly strings.h) * Description: STRING class definition. * Author: Ray Smith