codec for UTF-8 with BOM

[John Machin]

On Monday, 2 May 2011 19:47:45 UTC+10, Chris Rebert  wrote:
> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt
> <ulrich.... at dominolaser.com> wrote:

> The correct name, as you found below and as is corroborated by the
> webpage, seems to be "utf_8_sig":
> >>> u"FOøbar".encode('utf_8_sig')
> '\xef\xbb\xbfFO\xc3\xb8bar'

To complete the picture, decoding swallows the BOM:

 >>> '\xef\xbb\xbfFO\xc3\xb8bar'.decode('utf_8_sig')
 u'FO\xf8bar'