Is this a bug? BOM decoded with UTF8

[Diez B. Roggisch]

> I know its easy (string.replace()) but why does UTF-16 do
> it on its own then? Is that according to Unicode standard or just
> Python convention?

BOM is microsoft-proprietary crap. UTF-16 is defined in the unicode
standard.
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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch