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Author	pitrou
Recipients	ezio.melotti, pitrou, yang
Date	2009-10-19.18:44:53
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Message-id	<1255977894.76.0.318331350299.issue7145@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The explanation is that sockets are not seekable, but the heuristic to decide whether to write a BOM relies on tell() to return 0 on start-of-file. If we unconditionally wrote a BOM, there would be a risk of duplicate BOMs depending on the use case, which is more annoying than lacking a BOM at the beginning.

The explanation is that sockets are not seekable, but the heuristic to
decide whether to write a BOM relies on tell() to return 0 on start-of-file.
If we unconditionally wrote a BOM, there would be a risk of duplicate
BOMs depending on the use case, which is more annoying than lacking a
BOM at the beginning.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2009-10-19 18:44:54	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, ezio.melotti, yang
2009-10-19 18:44:54	pitrou	set	messageid: <1255977894.76.0.318331350299.issue7145@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2009-10-19 18:44:53	pitrou	link	issue7145 messages
2009-10-19 18:44:53	pitrou	create