Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> added the comment: It's used by some systems (Windows Notepad does this if you save as UTF8) to indicate that the byte stream *is* UTF8-encoded. It's not so much a BOM as a magic cookie.
I can't speak for syslog, I'm afraid TJG ---------- nosy: +tim.golden _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14452> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
