Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> writes: > In message > <2752e2e4-76fe-475a-a476-e5458bbfd...@z30g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, TheOne > wrote: > >> Anyway, it would be great if I could make my eclipse/pydev to >> understand the BOM character and suppress the lexical error msg. > > What exactly is the point of a BOM in a UTF-8-encoded file?
It's a marker like the "coding: utf-8" in python-files. It tells the software aware of it that the content is UTF-8. Naming it "BOM" is obviously stupid, but that's the way it is called. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
