[Tutor] name shortening in a csv module output

[Jim Mooney]

So is there any way to sniff the encoding, including the BOM (which appears
to be used or not used randomly for utf-8), so you can then use the proper
encoding, or do you wander in the wilderness?

Pretty much guesswork.
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Alan Gauld
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This all sounds suspiciously like the old browser wars I suffered while
webmastering. I'd almost think Microsoft had a hand in it ;')  If utf-8 can
handle a million characters, why isn't it just the standard? I doubt we'd
need more unless the Martians land.

Since I am reading opinions that the BOM doesn't even belong in utf-8, can
I assume just using utf-8-sig as my default encoding, even on a non-BOM
file, would do no harm?

Jim