On 23Jan2021 22:00, Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote: >I see very little use in detecting the BOMs. I haven't seen a UTF-16 >BOM in the wild in a decade (as usual for me, that's Japan-specific, >and may be limited to the academic community as well), and the UTF-8 >BOM is a no-op if the default is UTF-8 anyway.
I thought I'd seen them on Windows text files within the last year or so (I don't use Windows often, so this is happenstance from receiving some data, not an observation of the Windows ecosystem; my recollection is that it was a UTF16 CSV file.) But BOMs may be commonplace. This isn't a text file example, ut the ISO14496 standard (the basis for all MOV and MP4 files) has a text field type which may be UTF-16LE, UTF16BE or UTF-8, detected by a BOM of the right flavour for UTF16 and not BOM implying UTF8. I'm sure this is to accomodate easy writing by various systems. I do not consider the BOM dead, and it is so cheap to recognise that not bothering to do so seems almost mean sprited. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/KWBRCLYQHZK5ETJOT6KFRN7MJMGXX5H6/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
