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From: Pete Forman <petef4+usenet@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Guessing the encoding from a BOM
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:46:45 +0000
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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Slight aside, any chance of changing the subject of this thread, or even
>> ending the thread completely?  Why?  Every time I see it I picture Inspector
>> Clouseau, "A BOM!!!" :)
>
> Special delivery, a berm! Were you expecting one?

Endian detection: Does my BOM look big in this?

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Pete Forman