John Bauman wrote: > UTF-8 shouldn't need a BOM, as it is designed for character streams, and > there is only one logical ordering of the bytes. Only UTF-16 and greater > should output a BOM, AFAIK.
However there's a pending patch (http://bugs.python.org/1177307) for a new encoding named utf-8-sig, that would output a leading BOM on writing and skip it on reading. Bye, Walter Dörwald -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
