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Author vinay.sajip
Recipients gvanrossum, tim.golden, vinay.sajip, zmk
Date 2012-04-11.15:52:04
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> But why on earth would one want a BOM in UTF-8-encoded data?  It is byte-order independent!

Lord only knows, but the RFC does call for it - msg157572 has an actual excerpt from RFC 5424.
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