Re: codec for UTF-8 with BOM

Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Date	2011-05-02 03:13 -0700
Subject	Re: codec for UTF-8 with BOM
From	John Machin <sjmachin@lexicon.net>
Message-ID	<mailman.1069.1304331232.9059.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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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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Re: codec for UTF-8 with BOM John Machin <sjmachin@lexicon.net> - 2011-05-02 03:13 -0700

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