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

[Kristian Benoit]

Kristian Benoit added the comment:

I added code to skip the bom if present when encoding is either None or "utf-8". The problem I have with Victor's solution is that users don't know these files are not plain UTF-8. Most text editor says it's utf-8 encoded, how can a user figure out there 3 hidden bytes at the start of the file ?

Kristian

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keywords: +patch
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35269/json.patch

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