removing BOM prepended by codecs?

[J. Bagg]

I've checked the original files using od and they don't have BOMs.

I'll remove them in the servlet. The overhead is probably small enough 
unless somebody is doing a massive search. We have a limit anyway to 
prevent somebody stealing the entire set of data.

I started writing the Python search because the ancient C search had 
started putting out BOMs. I'm actually mystified because our home Linux 
box does not add BOMs even though it runs 2.7 but my work one does even 
though it has the same version. The only difference is Fedora 18 v 
Fedora 17.

The BOMs are certainly there:

<86> <AD><FB>%R 10C0203z-621
%A François-Xavier Le_Bourdonnec

0000000 206     255 373   %   R       1   0   C   0   2   0   3   z   -

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