For the pdstedit command, return code 0 indicates normal termination, and return code 1 indicates abnormal termination.
If you selected utf-8 or utf-8_ivs as the character encoding in the pdsetup command, you might be able to use a file with a BOM as the input file for pdstedit. The table below shows whether files with a BOM can be used with pdstedit. Note that even when a file with a BOM is used as the input file for pdstedit, the BOM is skipped.
Table 14-23 Whether or not files with a BOM can be used in pdstedit (applicable to UTF-8)