On Monday, 2 May 2011 19:47:45 UTC+10, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt > <ulrich....@dominolaser.com> wrote:
> The correct name, as you found below and as is corroborated by the
> webpage, seems to be "utf_8_sig":
> >>> u"FOøbar".encode('utf_8_sig')
> '\xef\xbb\xbfFO\xc3\xb8bar'
To complete the picture, decoding swallows the BOM:
>>> '\xef\xbb\xbfFO\xc3\xb8bar'.decode('utf_8_sig')
u'FO\xf8bar'
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