PEP-0263 and default encoding

Klaus Alexander Seistrup spam at magnetic-ink.dk
Wed Oct 1 07:58:22 EDT 2003


Erik Max Francis skrev:

>> Please, could you explain what you mean by "the UTF-8 BOM"?
>
> Byte order marker.  It's a clever gimmick Unicode uses, where a few
> valid Unicode characters are set aside for being used in sequence to
> help determine whether an encoded Unicode stream is little-endian or
> big-endian.

Thanks, I also found a reference on unicode.org¹ that was useful.


  // Klaus

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