On 24/9/2013 09:01, J. Bagg wrote: Why would you start a new thread? just do a Reply-List (or Reply-All and remove the extra names) to the appropriate message on the existing thread.
> I'm using: > > outputfile = codecs.open (fn, 'w+', 'utf-8', errors='strict') That won't be adding a BOM. It appends to an existing file, which already may have a BOM in it. Or conceivably you have a BOM in your unicode string that you're passing to write() method. > > to write as I know that the files are unicode compliant. I run the raw > files that are delivered through a Python script to check the unicode > and report problem characters which are then edited. The files use a > whole variety of languages from Sanskrit to Cyrillic and more obscure > ones too. > it'd be much nicere to remove it when writing the file. -- DaveA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list