Google Contacts CSV has BOM

[schorsch]

The ruby csv parser fails when importing google contacts export because it has a UTF16 BOM in it.

We should strip all BOM, and if present autodetect the incoming encoding and convert it to utf-8

[vijendra]

Can I get a test problematic CSV file?

[schorsch]

i changed the toppic and checked the BOM issue, which is not resolved yet.

Here is an example of how it could be done, but in ruby192 there might be other methods
http://self.d-struct.org/195/howto-remove-byte-order-mark-with-ruby-and-iconv

I will upload a failing csv, too