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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 12:43:28 -0600
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Subject: Re: Guessing the encoding from a BOM
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On 2014-01-17 09:10, Mark Lawrence 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!!!" :)

In discussions regarding BOMs, I regularly get the "All your base"
meme from a couple years ago stuck in my head: "Somebody set us up the
bomb!"  (usually in reference to clients sending us files with the
aforementioned superfluous UTF-8 BOMs in them)

-tkc