removing BOM prepended by codecs?

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Date	Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:42:22 +0100
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I'm having trouble with the BOM that is now prepended to codecs files. 
The files have to be read by java servlets which expect a clean file 
without any BOM.

Is there a way to stop the BOM being written?

It is seriously messing up my work as the servlets do not expect it to 
be there. I could delete it but that means another delay in retrieving 
the data. My work is a bibliographic system and I'm writing a new search 
engine in Python to replace an ancient one in C.

I'm working on Linux with a locale of en_GB.UTF8

-- 
Dr Janet Bagg
CSAC, Dept of Anthropology,
University of Kent, UK

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removing BOM prepended by codecs? "J. Bagg" <j.bagg@kent.ac.uk> - 2013-09-24 10:42 +0100
  Re: removing BOM prepended by codecs? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-24 10:56 +0000
  Re: removing BOM prepended by codecs? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-09-24 11:43 -0700
    Re: removing BOM prepended by codecs? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-25 08:20 +1000

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