[Python-Dev] PEP 263 considered faulty (for some Japanese)

[Tom Emerson]

Stephen J. Turnbull writes:
>     SUZUKI> Just one worry: [UTF-8 BOM] may be incompatible with
>     SUZUKI> '#!/usr/bin/env' used in Unix.
> 
> It probably is, but it's out of Python's control: the editor will add
> it.  And this can (and will) be handled by changing the shells.

The UTF-8 BOM is an aBOMination that should not be allowed to
live. The only editor that I know of that inserts the sequence is
Microsoft's WordPad (or TextPad, I don't use either). I hope XEmacs
isn't going to do this.

The point of the UniBOM is to determine the byte-order used in a
UTF-(16|32) or UCS-[24] encoded file: one can of course us it as an
indicator for Unicode, but it should not be used as an encoding
idenfier. It is merely a hint.

    -tree

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