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Author Kristian.Benoit
Recipients Kristian.Benoit, cvrebert, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner
Date 2014-05-17.15:06:59
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I added code to skip the bom if present when encoding is either None or "utf-8". The problem I have with Victor's solution is that users don't know these files are not plain UTF-8. Most text editor says it's utf-8 encoded, how can a user figure out there 3 hidden bytes at the start of the file ?

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