Is this a bug? BOM decoded with UTF8

[Nick Coghlan]

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> So they admit that it makes no sense - especially as decoding a utf-8 string
> given any 8-bit encoding like latin1 will succeed.
> 
> So in the end, I stand corrected. But I still think its crap - But not MS
> crap. :)

Oh, good. I'm not the only person who went "A BOM in UTF-8 data? WTF do you need 
a byte order marker for when you have 8-bit data?"

It also clarifies Martin's comment about the UTF-8 codec ignoring the existence 
of this piece of silliness :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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