RE: Unicode and end users

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> UTF-8 should *never* contain the BOM.

But has been pointed out, it is common practice for Microsoft, and also for
ICU's genrb tool, for example, which uses the BOM to autodetect the
encoding. The more example you'll see of that, the more people will use the
BOM (now, can't we all use -*- coding: utf-8 -*- ;-)?).

YA

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