I recently rediscovered this strange behaviour in Python’s Unicode handling.
—Evan
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-1; there’s no standard for UTF-8 BOMs—adding it to the codecs module was probably a mistake to begin with.
—M.-A.
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There is a standard for UTF-8
signatures
, however.
—Stephen
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I would personally like to see an "utf-8-bom" codec
—"Martin
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+1.
—M.-A.