diff -rau src.original/gdb/charset.c src/gdb/charset.c
--- src.original/gdb/charset.c	2009-07-15 13:05:42.000896000 -0400
+++ src/gdb/charset.c	2009-07-15 13:09:23.000013000 -0400
@@ -646,6 +646,20 @@
       *out_chars = iter->out;
       *ptr = orig_inptr;
       *len = orig_in - iter->bytes;
+
+      if (num > 1) {
+	if ( (iter->out[0] == (gdb_wchar_t) 0xfffe) ||
+	     (iter->out[0] == (gdb_wchar_t) 0xfeff) ) {
+
+	  /* iconv returned byte order marks, skip those */
+	  int mov;
+	  for (mov = 0; mov < (num - 1); mov ++) 
+	    iter->out[mov] = iter->out[mov + 1];
+	  
+	  num -= 1;
+	}
+      }
+
       return num;
     }
 
Only in src/gdb: charset.c.~1.24.~