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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:42:22 +0100
From: "J. Bagg" <j.bagg@kent.ac.uk>
Organization: Dept of Anthropology, University of Kent
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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