BOM should be ignored by Python

[Andrew MacIntyre]

On Tue, 2 May 2000, Neil Hodgson wrote:

> > (5) a
> > reader of UTF-8 data should be prepared to regard a BOM as legal, not
> > a "syntax error".
> 
>    This is what I want to see changed. The Python interpreter currently is
> not defined to be a UTF-8 reader when reading scripts. I'd like to see it
> accept these scripts.

I can see this happening on Win2K systems, but on Unix where the #! hack
is extensively entrenched and unicode oblivious AFAIK (and likely to be
so for some time), I'm wondering where that would leave script 
portability.

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