Eclipse/PyDev - BOM Lexical Error

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <mailman.1466.1286556950.29448.python-list at python.org>, Ethan 
Furman wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> But they can only recognize it as a BOM if they assume UTF-8 encoding to
>> begin with. Otherwise it could be interpreted as some other coding.
> 
> Not so.  The first three bytes are the flag.

But this is just a text file. All parts of its contents are text, there is 
no “flag”.

If you think otherwise, then tell us what are these three “flag” bytes for a 
Windows-1252-encoded text file?