patch applied (ghc-6.8/ghc): FIX #1744: ignore the byte-order mark at the beginning of a file

[Ian Lynagh]

Fri Nov 30 02:11:00 PST 2007  Simon Marlow <simonmar at microsoft.com>
  * FIX #1744: ignore the byte-order mark at the beginning of a file

    M ./compiler/utils/StringBuffer.lhs -6 +16