For bonus points: how about properly handling UTF-8 byte order marks (BOM), too? The way this code is written if the files contain a BOM, you're going to pass t

For bonus points: how about properly handling UTF-8 byte order marks (BOM), too? The way this code is written if the files contain a BOM, you're going to pass the BOM right into the destination file. Fine for the first file, not so fine for any other file. Dropping a BOM mark in the middle of a file isn't going to result in valid UTF-8...