On 2017-02-07 09:24, Liam Goodacre wrote:
This explanation makes sense, however I am using non ASCII characters in the textfile (not the one attached, but the one I'm working on), so I guess that I need the BOM to stay there.
no. the BOM was just another useless invention. UTF-8 (unlike UTF-16) is a byte-stream oriented protocol. it is unconcerned by the notion of byte-order.
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