[issue21509] json.load fails to read UTF-8 file with (BOM) Byte Order Marks

[Chris Rebert]

Chris Rebert added the comment:

The new JSON RFC now at least mentions BOM handling:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159#section-8.1 :
> Implementations MUST NOT add a byte order mark to the beginning of a
> JSON text.  In the interests of interoperability, implementations
> that parse JSON texts MAY ignore the presence of a byte order mark
> rather than treating it as an error.

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nosy: +cvrebert

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