I know its easy (string.replace()) but why does UTF-16 do it on its own then? Is that according to Unicode standard or just Python convention?
BOM is microsoft-proprietary crap.
Uh, no. BOM is part of the Unicode standard. The intent is to allow consumers of Unicode text files to disambiguate UTF-8, big-endian UTF-16 and little-endian UTF-16.
See http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#BOM
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